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.

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

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.

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

Gee... He practically lived on the road... he doesn't need a house.

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