The 80-85 range is very comfortable. I know it is speeding but most cops won't pull you over for 85 or under on the interstate. She is very happy here, the w126 on the other hand...
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The 80-85 range is very comfortable. I know it is speeding but most cops won't pull you over for 85 or under on the interstate. She is very happy here, the w126 on the other hand...
Please finish. I've always wondered about the "big boys"...
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Scott in MD/DC
94 E320 Wagon (Just getting broken in)
95 C280 (RIP)
87 190E (Sold)
"There is nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes"
3500 rpm sustained will brutalize fuel economy. The lack of an overdrive gear or even a lockup torque converter really hurts fuel economy on 124s. I can't believe they built 95s without those features. Ridiculous. My 97 LeSabre beater will cruise at 75 with the tach (yeah, weird, isn't it?) reading just under 2000 rpms. Imagine how long an M103 or M104 would last if it was spinning that much lower on the highway! To me this is the biggest reason to do a manual trans conversion in my red car. Gotta do some more research though.
i know of a cat who says that he put the 2.24 final drive from a 400E/ E420 in his 94 coupe and gets 32 mpg. says 80 is at 2400 rpm or something. haven't seen him in about a year though. something i'm keeping in the back of my mind should the price of gas get really ridiculous.
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'O=00=O' BMW 2002. long live the legend.
My old 200K mile 300CE-24 seems happiest above the speed limit - here in France, that's around 100mph - in UK, around 90.
Sometimes when the road's empty, I find things drifting towards 120mph. I was dozing when my wife was driving the other day and I awoke to see 170kph - around 110mph. Well!
I dread to think what'll happen when the suspension's sorted out and the thing goes in straight lines again without constant correction. I shall doubtless fall into the hands of the gendarmerie.
Fuel consumption on our regular drive up to UK usually hits about 27MPG (UK gallon) or 10 litres per 100 KMs. No complaints really.
Last year we were in Germany for some long-promised high jinks on the autobahn but it snowed and the whole escapade turned to misery - at one point we slid into a drift on our summer tyres and my wife said, "I think we're going to die!" No way, I replied, are we going to die at 10 kph, even though we were sliding head-on into a lorry. Luckily everyone stopped and we reversed out to continue our journey.
We limped on towards Nuernberg and the temperature gauge started climbing. Now what? Pulled into rest area and the radiator was completely snowed up - no air flow. After lunch, continued on and then the weather really took a turn for the worse. Blizzard, 300CE and summer tyres - bloody misery.
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