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Car Forum / Mercedes-Benz Cars / September 2004A nice low milage Merc
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1111264.html Apologies if this link has been posted before Ben '88 300SL 2.8M km is 1,739,839 miles for those still stuck in a country without metric... (cough, america) Wow! > http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1111264.html > > Apologies if this link has been posted before > > Ben > '88 300SL Gee... He practically lived on the road... he doesn't need a house. > Gee... He practically lived on the road... he doesn't need a house. It's worse: He has bought a holiday home outside Thessaloniki and therefore money is short so he bought a Peugeot as substitute http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,318967,00.html Juergen Oh man... he didn't save enough to buy another Mercedes! He regrets it... duh! On the other note, he only changed the engine 3 times?! Wow... that's impressive. > Oh man... he didn't save enough to buy another > Mercedes! He regrets it... duh! I couldn't agree more! And given the fact one could buy a really good used W123 diesel for - say - 2000 Euros... ===:-((( But of course there is good news: A brand-new C 200 CDI is waiting for Mr. Sachinidis upon his retutn in Greece. > On the other note, he only changed the > engine 3 times?! Wow... that's impressive. No, no, the story is as follows (DC Press Info): Mr. Sachinidis bought his car in Germany in 1981 with around 220,000 km on the clock, before driving it back to Thessalonica. Here it was in service as a taxi 24 hours a day until July 2004. During this time the owner was able to call upon the original engine and two spare units, deploying them on a rotational basis 11 times in total. (end of cite) This means 4.600.000 : 11 = 420.000 km each - not bad, but also not good. Juergen Ya!? Wow... what a lucky guy! > 2.8M km is 1,739,839 miles for those still stuck in a country without > metric... > (cough, america) > Wow! It is not clear from that article, but that already is the converted figure from km to miles - so it is 2.800.000 miles which is more than 4.500.000 km! An article in GERMAN language can be found at http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,318967,00.html Juergen -------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1111264.html > > > > Apologies if this link has been posted before > > > > Ben > > '88 300SL Did you see the article posted in a later thread in some local rag? http://www.bbv-net.de/public/article/nachrichten/journal/gesellschaft/62401 The facts keep changing... DAS  SignatureFor direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- >> 2.8M km is 1,739,839 miles for those still stuck in a country without >> metric... [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> > Ben >> > '88 300SL Hi Dori, > Did you see the article posted in a later thread in some local rag? > http://www.bbv-net.de/public/article/nachrichten/journal/gesellschaft/62401 > The facts keep changing... Yes, that is the _facts_ also reported by reputed German news mag _Der Spiegel_ - nevertheless I more trust DC here, their info seems to be more precise to me. If I find the time I will set up a page later where all the info from DC is contained. Kind regards Juergen - only needs to clock another 4.400.000 km to break the record... ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > DAS > -- [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >> > Ben > >> > '88 300SL I would agree with that. Except that DC wouldn't be so keen to report on the planned switch to Peugeot which is, presumably, why they're giving him a new car. (BTW my understanding is that Peugeot diesel engines are pretty good, too. Not so sure about the car, though, even though I enjoy driving them.) DAS SignatureFor direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- [........] nevertheless I more trust DC here, > their info seems to be more precise to me. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > only needs to clock another 4.400.000 km to break the record... ;-) > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I would agree with that. > Except that DC wouldn't be so keen to report on the planned switch to > Peugeot which is, presumably, why they're giving him a new car. He is giving them a world-record car so they have to return a bit more than a mere _thanks_ - seen that way I find it ok to give him a C-class, better would have been an E-Class as it is a successor of the /8. > (BTW my understanding is that Peugeot diesel engines are pretty good, too. > Not so sure about the car, though, even though I enjoy driving them.) Yes, Peugeot diesel engines are good (and regarding particulate filters they were ahead of all the competition incl. Mercedes) and IMHO the big Peugeots like the 607 are underrated esp. in Germany. Juergen - OM 616 See below. SignatureFor direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- >> I would agree with that. >> Except that DC wouldn't be so keen to report on the planned switch to [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > better would have been an E-Class as it is a > successor of the /8. FROM DAS: I agree. >> (BTW my understanding is that Peugeot diesel engines are pretty good, >> too. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > competition incl. Mercedes) and IMHO the big > Peugeots like the 607 are underrated esp. in Germany. FROM DAS: Re big Peugeots, am not so sure (tho' personally I like the styling). Sorry if this is a repeat, but I have heard it said (not in Germany) that the reason Peugeot makes big cars is that French government ministers wouldn't be seen dead in a (German) Mercedes... > Juergen - OM 616 |
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