Why wouldn't you want to take your 300TD to 80? Thats not really all that fast considering what the car is capable of. On mornings where I was late to work I'd take the 240D to the limit and hold it there for half an hour or more. Of course thats only like 75mph but it never felt unstable at speed. Now with the 190D I've been able to get up to around 80mph but traffic during my commutes has precluded any higher speed. Planning a run down to Hartford in a couple weeks which should allow me to test the upper limits of the 2.2l diesel. -Curt '85 190D "Dory" 234kmi Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:19:25 -0500 From: "andrew strasfogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] weenies To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I rented a Hyundai Sonata this weekend and cruised effortlessly at 80 on I-91 between Hartrod and Hadley, MAe. I felt secure too, whereas I wouldn't want to cruise at that speed in my '83 300TD no matter how great a car it is. I think the technology and improvements ergonomics makes the newer cars inherently safer. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 08 00:04:09 2006 Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net ([216.148.227.154]) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FGm9x-0007VR-7P for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:04:09 +0000 Received: from ringbill.gull.us (gull.us[24.18.9.231]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060308000405m1400gkf0se>; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:04:05 +0000 Received: from [69.88.113.178] (helo=[192.168.1.105]) by ringbill.gull.us with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51 (FreeBSD)) id 1FGm9m-000N6E-KT for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:04:00 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:03:59 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.7 X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "ringbill.gull.us", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details. Content preview: andrew strasfogel wrote: > Don't get me wrong. I feel VERY secure in my 300TD but at 80 it's a bit > loud, shall we say. > It's all relative. My previous cars have been a VW Bus, a Ford van with bad door seals, a Honda Civic, a VW Vanagon, and a Volvo 240. The Mercedes is like a tomb compared to most of those, with relatively little wind noise at speed. I have heard some people say they don't like the sound of the engine at that speed, that it sounds like it's straining, but that's just the way diesels sound at high RPM. [...] Content analysis details: (-4.7 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 1.2 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] weenies X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:04:09 -0000 andrew strasfogel wrote: > Don't get me wrong. I feel VERY secure in my 300TD but at 80 it's a bit > loud, shall we say. > It's all relative. My previous cars have been a VW Bus, a Ford van with bad door seals, a Honda Civic, a VW Vanagon, and a Volvo 240. The Mercedes is like a tomb compared to most of those, with relatively little wind noise at speed. I have heard some people say they don't like the sound of the engine at that speed, that it sounds like it's straining, but that's just the way diesels sound at high RPM.
