Where the taxis go 125 mph .......

I found "The W126-020 chassis 260SE Sedan with the M103-941 motor was made\ between 1985 and 1991" on my website. Sound right to you?

I guess a 2.6L motor would pretty much have to be injected to be of any use in a car that size.

stores accept credit cards. One colleague told me, the attitude in> Germany is: "If you can't afford to pay for something, you shouldn't be> buying it".

That is old-school thinking, times have changed and especially young people have high debts (in relation to their income), 1000 Euros debt or more just with cell phone companies is not uncommon - an often fatal first step into personal insolvency (ca. 3 mio Germans are personally insolvent).

The Eurocheque system is history since December 31st 2001 - twothousandONE!

Normally the accepted credit cards are marked with signs at the entry door.

A famous type of sausages is called _Frankfurter_.

As Dori already mentioned, a _Kneipe_ is a collective term for pub (or tavern), a wine house is special kind of a _Kneipe_.

It's a bit _faceless_ to non-Frankfurters with all the sky scrapers (or what we in Germany call sky scrapers).

Are we really???

No, that is not correct - there is no law stating that as a German you have to carry your ID-card (Personalausweis) with you in Germany. The law says you have to have one if you are older than

16 years and that you have to be able to present it to all the authorities which are authorized to check your identity (German text here Juergen

Yes, abolutely!

And shifting into nutpicking gear ;-) I can say it was produced from 10/85 until 02/91, only

20.836 vehicles (compared to 105.422 300SE/SEL from 09/85 until 10/91, 818.036 W126 sedans total).

Until the W126 face-lift there was the 280S (260SE equivalent) which intentionally had a carburettor engine, thought of by MB as to be easier serviceable in remote parts of the world than an injection engine. In the mid-eighties they realised the world had changed...

Juergen

818K cars? Did Mercedes ever make that many other S class chassis cars or does the 126 hold that record.

That makes sense, thanks.

Yes, correct, I was thinking that at the time with 300SE 2.8 / S280, that one was the only one with manual :-)

Did the W124 have newer versions of the M104 earlier than the W140, like distributor-less ignition and the variable-length intake?

br, syljua

Slightly OT: my father had a 250 W123 for some years. Nice car but THIRSTY.

I think it was the one after that that was a W124 200D - did it have been the 72 PS engine?

DAS

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Well, at least I was right about the existence of an S280 and only partially wrong about the 260 (260S or S260).... ;-)

DAS

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Like me and my CLK Cab...

DAS

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That explains why my bank in London withdrew Eurocheques some years ago.

I thought the withdrawal was a British thing only, especially as they were slow to introduce the Eurocheque concept in the first place and many places here remained ignorant of the system. At that time I used only blank Eurocheque forms and, for example, a couple of financial institutions kept telling me there was an extra-lengthy and expensive procedure for crediting them to my account.

This was, as the Americans say, baloney. Eurocheques used in one's own country were regular cheques (just on different pieces of paper).

Anyway, I guess the spead of credit cards and cash machines rendered the Eurocheque system almost redundant.

Skyscrapers (Wolkenkratzer) are skyscrapers in English, too (one word, as in German!).

Juergen, have you been on another 'holiday'?

DAS

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Richard Sexton wrote: (W126 S-Class)

Although I must admit I don't have the W220 figures from MB at hand I can definitely say that the W126 with 818.036 sedans _does_ hold the record by far:

W220 = 485.000 (one non-MB source only; close to 500k figure IS ok)

07/1998 - 07/2005 (latter ca.)

W140 = 406.532 (MB figure)

04/1991 - 09/1998 (latter ca.)

W126 = 818.036 (MB figure)

12/1979 - 04/1992

W116 = 473.035 (MB figure)

08/1972 - 09/1980

W109/109 = 361.400 (my calculation)

08/1965 - 11/1972

W111/112 = 344.751 (MB figure)

08/1959 - 01/1968 (yes, sixty-eight)

W180/105/128 Pontoon 6-cylinders = 111.035 (MB figure)

06/1954 - 08/1959

Note: Figures for sedans - no coupes, no cabrios included! Production dates (serial production) MB figures except (latter ca.)

Juergen

_As far as I know_ not - but please note I'm no expert so I may err!

Juergen

Yes, that's what made the 280E more popular: More power, less fuel consumption.

In the beginning the W124 200D had 72 PS (01/1985 -

08/1989), later (09/1989 - 07/1993 (- 08/1995 E200 Diesel)) it got a power boost ;-) to 75 PS (newly constructed pre-chamber with tilted-angle injection, 40 per cent less emissions).

Juergen

Dori, there is things I simply do NOT believe!

Juergen

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There were some differences like

- special design, identical for all countries

- no pre-printed currency, currency had to be filled out - gave some _very_ surprised looks from cashiers when I filled in DKR 300 (Danish Crowns) and got DM 300 (German Marks, more than thrice the value...) and the biggest difference was that a certain amount (here in Germany DM 300, later DM 400) were guaranteed per each cheque by the issuing bank, means if you - say - filled out three cheques with DM 400 each the bank had to pay DM 1.200 to the person who presented the cheque, no matter if the account of the cheque issuer

One word in British english, yes, but what about USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand...? (serious question)

google.com says: Results 1 - 10 of about 5,480,000 for skyscraper [definition]. (0.06 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 5,760,000 for sky scraper. (0.24 seconds)

Well, I have been constantly criticising MB for years and so as a compensation from time to time I do have to travel to Stuttgart and then to clean production lines, CEO toilets and such with my toothbrush for free - wonder what will happen when they realize I will sell my good old W123 soon and substitute it with a VW Golf Mk5... ;-))

Juergen

P.S.: to get serious: Life has changed for me, there's less spare time left to participate in newsgroups etc. and at times when I'm away from home it's even close to zero

All right... to clarify...

The car was/is important because I always wanted a cabrio (not a status symbol) and any dreams of an SLK had to given up when a family came along. Then I decided that before I get too old I would scrape together the cash and bank loan to buy the car. It was a window of opportunity. And my age at the time (50) is shown on my number plate...

Given that I do about 5000 miles (8K km) or less per year I certainly don't need such a car and it sits expensively in the garage for days and weeks at a time.

Surprisingly, I still have it after nearly 5 years. I thought I would get tired of the restricted space compared even to our 190E and sell it after maybe three years but...

DAS

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See below.

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Ha!

VW is now run by the DC guy who helped run Chrysler for a while and then got fired for being too agressive.

Now that the former CEO is gone is MB still to be criticized? I will bet that the thousands of employees that were just fired miss the previous CEO.

I am sorry to hear that.

I hope it changes back.

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Sorry but the VW-guy came from BMW and was responsible for the Rover-disaster. Greetings Max

greek_philosophizer schrieb:

I thought Wolfgang Bernhard came from DaimlerChrysler.

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