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Complete with a fox tail too.

God those were popular there lol. Kennst du Nackenlanger? 🤣👌🏼

And I miss the days of single-mindedly sporty high end cars (I'm looking squarely at you, BMW). Back when they weren't aiming for the dumbest and most vapid of LuXuRy CoNsUmeRs.

Yep, I find Benzes a bit vulgar now too. Even the truly high end ones. This old 1993 one must have had serious presence at the time, but it does it in a sort of stern, old-family-money statesman like dignified way, rather than a thuggish one. Certain years of Range Rovers and Land Rovers had this quality too, but now they've gone high-tech and aggressive too. All that stuff is still selling like mad though...

Could not agree more. Every single car today tries to look angry and sporty, and that's just stupid.

True words!

So true, if you wanted a sporty car, get a Porsche, not an Avalon with "sport" mode for example

Everyone!

Beautiful one on Ebay right now for sale. Want it so badly.

25 year law. Import a real German Benz.

I have a white one with black interior and black top

I want a 1994 E320 just like my mother had back then. That was a beautiful car. Navy blue with peanut butter leather. They don’t make MBs like that any longer. Sad

@Johnson Long That's M5 Competition money

Makes me want to know how much the SL cost back then if this was $76k new.

Wow how did you find for the price tag for that '93 convertible

@@edwardsimmons3190 in the video

SuchANiceGirl22 500sl was 94k before taxes in 1993

I love classic Mercedes 1980s a 1990s. Fantastics and elegants cars

@Chevy Man w123s are overrated w124 was the top of mercedes benz best car they ever built along with w126 no rust issues engines are pure perfection and just overall quallity and materials of the car are better than w123 take a look at the dash on the w123 they are all cracked a lot of other minor things have improved with the w124..sadly we will never see such build quallity in auto industry ever again..

Chevy Man the W123 chassis was relatively outdated when it came out. Yes it was a well engineered car, but fundamentally just an evolution of its predecessor. The W124 was a real departure and in many aspects still relatively modern today, 35 years after it was first introduced. Truly the last indestructible Mercedes

Brunno Succo was designer.

Facts 👑

R.I.P. Real Mercedes.

Joe so true! I have a 2015 C300 with only 25k miles and it already rattles like a 20 yr old pick up truck!

@@mikezerker6925 That is so funny. I just wrote a comment that said the old Mercedes cars were built to last 25 years and now they are made to last 25 months.

r/carscirclejerk

SL R129 surely?? Or even R230 that came after particularly with the SL55 AMG bodywork

@@davecom3 have to agree with you on that, but there's something special about this 300ce

helicopter weewee , are you Satan? Your question smells like sulfur.

helicopter weewee , with God on my side, sure.

helicopter weewee , absolutely!!… My family will have generational wealth that you, Satan, can’t touch because it’s in Gods hands. God and Satan are friends??... 😂 haaa

VEry beautiful and luxuous this Mercedes cabriolet

Hochgerüstet mit allem, was der D&W-Katalog damals so hergab 😃

Manta 400 or Exclusiv? perhaps just body kit :)

Bubblun it’s actually called the 300CE AMG 6.0. Nicknamed “Hammer.” If you look around on KZfaq Chris Harris from Top Gear has a video where he drives one.

@@boss12 It's nice but not a Cabriolet with that engine.

Bubblun AMG May have made one for all we know. Back then they didn’t just have them available. You had to know about AMG and then pony up for the conversion. So there may be someone who ordered one, but it may be the only one.

@@boss12 There was the cabrio 3.6, but AMG didn't make a cabrio 124 with a V8

Beemers never were built like this generation of merc. Millions of w124s still going, find me an E34..ill wait. After owning both there is night and day between them. The BMWs do drive well while they actually work though.

I owned a BMW 4-series for 4 years on a lease and the thing was still like new when I turned it in, not even one small issue in that time. I'm not sure where all these garbage BMW's are coming from, but I'm going to guess it's almost all from people that never owned one and instead drive a used Toyota Carola.

@@rodmunch69 Its funny, I have a good friend who only drives BMWs, he says the same thing..Even the toyota comment.. Although his last F10 535i cost him $22k then needed $28k in repairs.. Or his E60 that cost about the equivalent of a cup of coffee per km to run in repairs.. I owned a BMW 7 series, only car thats ever left me stranded on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, I also years ago was involved in car sales and BMW was one of the products - Yes that kept me busy.. You may have had a good one, or be being particularly nice in your summary of it, and fwiw you are allowed to like them, the are nice cars, but they are not reliable, they do not last, and they have a well earned reputation because of it. Smartest way to drive a BMW is lease it... Oh, they all generally come from Germany, or the really crap ones from the US or South Africa.. And I have never owned a Corolla lol

@@Flying_GC If you owned a BMW and that was your experience, then I guess that was your experience, but that wasn't mine. But most people talking trash about anything that is expensive are poor people who just want to feel better about the piece of crap they owned, and having grown up poor and being self made I owned many POS's that have left me stranded, sort of described every car I had from 16-24 years old.

@@rodmunch69 Its not just my experience, its many peoples. I own two Mercs, not a cheap bomb. They are far from perfect too, well the W124 is pretty much perfect actually. Go find a BMW that's ten years old, see how well it's held up.

More like puts into perspective how much the engineers absolutely didn't care about the price tag. This car was built to the best standards possible. I know because I own one, a '95 E320 Cab.

That's a solid car. Newer Mbenz are also really nice machines, your mom did a nice choice

I have a silver '94 with 137k miles. Made a road trip from Seattle to New Orleans (and back) last year, runs like a dream - 26.5 mpg for the whole trip, and I drove it fast, esp. in MT and TX (80-90mph). Got it 3 years ago for $7000, but I had to invest another 4k to fix the leaking hydraulics for the top. Now it's in great shape. Paint looks like new after 30 years!

Did you buy it off Craigslist for $600? Because that's where you find most of them.

@@rodmunch69 For a thousand. Trust me its hard to find a decent one under 3 or 4. I got lucky because I really hit it off with the owner(re mortgaged home to fund E30 project)

@@akishot6735 $1000! Righteous bucks.

@@rodmunch69 Looking down the barrel of two major transmission gaskets being shot however and needing new front tires, but after about 1.5 thousands miles since I bought it is has done great

I have one too. Do you drive it a lot. A mechanic told me its going to go up in value becuase there werent many made. I drive it locally.

Absolutely! Back in the day, to own a luxury car meant you had arrived in life. Top drawer. There were no cheap lease deals. To buy the car one had to put up the cash.

@@stuartbear922 yup.....and leather trim was still an option even on an S-class Mercedes Benz! Their quality; fit, finish and engineering was utterly top top top drawer too. A well maintained 190 Mercedes still feels completely solid. On the other hand, any Italian car from the 1980s and 1990s has probably rusted into oblivion by now.

Well real trouble already began with the W202 in 1993 and W210 in 1996. The merging with Chrystler was by far the worst thing that could have happened to Mercedes-Benz. They adopted the Crystler mindset and it would be catastrophic.

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I saw one recently with something like 130,000 miles, meticulously maintained, for $8,995.00! By the time I ran across it it had already been sold. Was white with gray leather and black canvas top. The original one nonetheless in awesome shape!

No, they didn't. Mercs regardless of reliability drive and feel a way no expensive Toyota can. So yeah those who don't care about driving may buy a Toyota, no enthusiasts do.

@@Flying_GC lol. Yeah, sure.

@@TheTaxburden yeah I'm quite sure, thanks for the reaffirmation

These are the days of mercedes when it was prolly better built than a lexus but in a few years that changed and by w211 they prolly walked to a lexus dealership lol

@@rikidiki8940 to be fair the w211 facelift is fine, and once again for enthusiasts a far better car. If you like driving would you buy an e55 amg or an ES300 or whatever other boring nonsense Lexus were churning out? Even with their new ISF stuff, they are still not in the same ball park as AMG. But yes, you want a boring executive sedan with leather seats to sit in traffic jams, Toyota is for you. Kinda a reason why they have always outsourced any cars with any remote sporting pedigree.

These were the last of the great Mercedes Benz lineage before the accountants overruled engineers and desecrated the proud brand

Mercedes started going downhill in quality starting in the 90's. they've just gotten worse and worse in quality ever since. Gone are the days of the likes of the W123's where Mercedes cars of that era were built with the up most quality.