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As I remember the Mercedes adds back then sold the cars on a basis of safety and longevity and don't mention the engines much other than the fact that they would run for hundreds of thousands of miles. Given the quality of cars coming from Detroit at the time it was an obvious selling point. The diesels were then, like now, mostly a curiosity to the average car buyer so I think the ads sold the car and then the buyers got sold on the engine in the showroom.
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LRG
1987 300D Turbo 175K
2006 Toyota Prius, efficent but no soul
1985 300 TDT(130K miles of trouble free motoring)now sold
Last edited by lrg; 02-26-2004 at 02:34 AM.
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