The M113 (and its M112 V6 sibling) are among the best engines Mercedes ever built. They’re not quite as unkillable as a slant-six, but you really have to work at it. And no, supercharging does not count as working at it.

*fwap*

The W164 (2006-2011, with a refresh in 2009) ML320 was a 3.0L turbodiesel, purely. (The gasoline version was an ML350.) The 2009-2014 ML350 Bluetecs (which straddle the line between W164 and W166) are diesels with DEF, though I’d recommend staying away from the W164 Bluetec because the DEF tank took the place of the…

They reused that trick from the first-gen 2-door RAV4. I slept in mine a few times. Worked great.

I had the same experience, with a different diesel. The first time I ever towed anything with my own vehicle was with a 2008 Mercedes ML320 CDI: I needed to tow a car home on a trailer. 3700 pound car, 2100 pound trailer, and the ML320 drove like it wasn’t there. All the torque you could ever want, and it really made…

These things hold their value amazingly well as long as they’re not beat to shit, and this one isn’t. NP all day and twice on Sundays.

No kidding? What the hell does it attach to? At least on my 560SL, there’s nothing along the bottom edge but a fairly stiff rubber gasket.

That’s my thought. At $3500 to $4000, this would be fairly priced. It would be right up my alley, but not that far up it. Yeah, finding these trucks in this good condition is rare, but has anyone stopped to think there’s a reason Mitsubishi didn’t sell a lot of them here in the first place?

Neither would I...and a friend who was a tech rep for Mazda at the time said that that was the stoutest truck transmission Mazda made, too. Regardless, it’s not the failure that turned me off of Ford, but the company’s response and refusal to honor the repair warranty. I consider that entire experience a $3400 hard…

The Tundra is a damn fine pickup. The addons...meh. He may have put $25K into it, but it’s not worth that. Drop the price $10K and we’ll talk. CP.

Mine was a ‘92 Explorer Sport with a 5-speed manual. It disintegrated on the highway in the maddle of nowhere at 65,000 miles. I had it towed 70 miles to a Ford dealer to get rebuilt. $1700 later, I drove it home. 4000 miles later, it disintegrated again - and Ford refused to honor the repair warranty. That little…

My Canadian best friend says that song is the most accurately Canadian thing ever.

That drivetrain was known for transmission problems. I had a lot of friends who’d bought Explorers of that vintage. Half of them had transmission failures early on. That, and the company’s response to my own failure, is the reason I will never again own a Ford.

Minivans are a dime a dozen. Even AWD minivans. Minivans that aren’t Fords that have been whooped up on with the ugly stick. Minivans that aren’t Fords. Did I mention that you can get decent minivans all day long that aren’t Fords for under a kilobuck? That aren’t Fords, even?

Considering my roommate drives a 1998 Corolla he bought new, I can’t argue with this statement...

This car will probably last as long as a W123. If you’re looking for boring, reliable transportation, you’ll get it for years and years and years. $3K isn’t a bad price for the kind of person who wants that. NP.

This is one I’d go for, but not at $5250. Drop the price to $3K and we’ll talk.

Funny, I got the same comment in reply on Twitter. It’s not true in either place.

I’m really on the fence about this one, but in the end, the idea of buying it cheap ($2600 is cheap for this car) and stuffing a reman short block in it in the end is just enough to push me into NP territory.

I give up. What the blue peeping hell is that and why does it exist? Yuk pooey bleagh.