No. The C400 has 328hp, the C450 has 362hp.

As someone with a 140k Merc I’d rather have a 300k Merc than a 60k Kia.

Ah, nice! Is this a W124 or W126? My Merc is just approaching 140k.

For me it’s the opposite - I don’t understand how little people use their car to keep the mileage that low.

Here in Germany we have the regulation to either fit a DPF so it meets modern emission standards or the car is not allowed to travel inside city centers.

How is a 520d insane? It has more than enough horsepower and lots of torque. I’d happily daily drive a 520d, they’re far from slow and very economical. For me torque and fuel economy are nearly all that counts. I’m a cruiser, not a drifting-around-the-corner-testing-the-boundaries-of-my-rev-limiter guy.

Yeah, if you could rant about what I actually wrote, that would be great.

I’ve often been to Milan, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Barcelona and never had a problem breathing. In fact I live in one of these cities.

Loud and ineffcient don’t have anything to do with smoothness. If a gasoline car needs more revs it is therefore louder. If it needs more fuel than the Diesel for the same job it is inefficient. The Diesels I owned and drove have never been vibrating more than any 4 cylinder gasoline engine.

Fuck gas engines is the only thing I have to say - They’re loud, inefficient and uncomfortable to drive (No, having your engine scream at you at 4000rpm just to get anywhere is not fun, it’s just tiring as hell).

Came here for this and wasn’t disappointed!

Getting off the highway to access the gas station and on again takes maybe 30 seconds. Either way you’d have to pull off and get back on with a Tesla as well.

You have very much captured the thing I love about road trips. The spirit, the freedom. Being chained to your car and a certain route sucks everything out of that.

My point is I want to stop and eat because I want it but not because the car is running out of juice again and I won’t make it to the next charging station 50-100 miles away.

Still you might have to take a break when you don’t want to because you’re not going to reach the next charging station. Also the Tesla I at highway speeds had maybe 150-200 miles of range if you’re lucky. I usually overtake them as they’re staying at 50 behind a truck, in desperate fear of running out of juice...

But those are 15mins extra you wouldn’t have needed otherwise. As is you don’t have to charge / refill in between most road trips. My Merc can go 500-600 miles on a single tank at highway speeds. Refilling on a gas station takes 3 mins including paying. The Tesla can not do that.

No one here seems to talking about Connecticut - $678k!

The numerics simply follow the “logic” the diesels have for 20 years now. There’s one numeric in the engine family that makes sense based on displacement (i. e. the 170 CDI, 200 CDI, 300 CDI) and then the others in the engine family are based on power ( 160 CDI, 250 CDI, 350 Bluetec).

At least the old ones had 6.29L so practically much closer to 6.3 than anything else they’re offering today.

The body still is still easily determined by the nomenclature, only that it no adds size as well. On the A Class level you have a Coupe (CLA), SUV (GLA) and a normal bodystyle (A). Same with the C-Class and SLC or GLC. That goes up all the way from E and GLE to S and GLS....