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Slackerous Maximus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Columbus, OH
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Mercedes E320 CDI...for pulling tree stumps?
369lbs of torque. The thing pulls like a train. For a diesel it is very quiet. The power is just awesome. Hard to get used to the low revs....
Do MB dealers haggle at all?
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02-19-2006, 06:54 PM
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Slackerous Maximus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Columbus, OH
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WTF?!?!?!
"The E320 CDI Sedan does not meet the emissions requirements of California, Maine, Massachusetts, New York or Vermont and is not available in these states." So a car that gets 37 mpg and can run on bio diesel can not be driven in these states? What a crock of crap.
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02-19-2006, 07:02 PM
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I'm off the hook.....
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: 22 miles south, then 11 miles west of LAS
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I get a driver in Italy that has one of those. I agree, the power is awesome. He drives like a Roman, which he is, and anything less than awesome would not work for him.
Unless you caught a whiff of the exhaust, you would not know it was a diesel.
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Unbelievably fantastic car, but then I'm very partial to direct injection diesels. I hope that they come out w/ a wagon version and offer it in AWD, that would be my dream used car once they get ~100k miles on them. (Broken in).
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Did you get the memo?
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02-20-2006, 04:07 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: N.S. Can
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The 320CDI will not pass California's current emission standards ( the other 4 states you mentioned adopt the same standards) because of particulates emitted. Mercedes has just announced a new system they call BLUETEC, to deal with particulates, <http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/tw/bluetec.htm> so it looks like CA will get the new Merc TD later this year. California at least, has the low-sulfer diesel. Last thing I read, the other states did not.
I suspect if Audi is successful at Sebring and LeMans this year, it could go a long way to opening some (and wallets) of potential buyers. Les
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