You may not believe this Siddiq, but the BBC's Top Gear did not think
much of this car (if I remember aright). I would not throw it out of
my garage though!
The Merc E300TD was discontinued in Europe a couple of years ago.
They replaced it with the E320 CDi which has 40% more torque. I am
pretty sure that they would not short-change their US market with the
"small" turbodiesel... ;-) Much as it pains me to write this, the
BMW 3.0l turbodiesel is a nicer sounding engine. I just wish that I
had one of them in my ML270 in place of the "little" 2.7l, 5-cyl ;-).
I heard on the radio this morning that the new Mini has been voted
top car of 2003 in Detroit.
Chris
At 01:15 -0800 06/01/03, siddiq wrote:
may i present to you one of the classiest drop top vehicles to grace
our roads:
http://users2.ev1.net/~wesiddiquis/siddiq/maserati3.jpg
looks that can kill, for sure! methinks so anyhow.
28/3.5 zuiko, of course. wish i had a tripod to get it level &
square, and that those square lights would shift over to enclose the
logo on the hood, like they were for the lamborghini display (or
someone had the foresight to
line up the car!). taken at the la auto show. my pick for a
(realistic) daily driver: porsche boxter s, with the slickest
transmission/clutch and darn nice seats. if i had to be practical
minded, then saab 9-3 2.0T, best seats in
the house. pity we dont yet get the turbo deisels they do across the
pond (but they are coming for 2004, confirmed by MB USA (E300) & BMW
USA (330D)). can't afford ANY of the listed, but hey....
/S
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ps, if you can't figure out the brand, take a look some more, it's
up there THREE times, twice mirrorred, once straight up.
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