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Used Car of the Day: 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300SL

The Truth About Cars

Today we bring you a 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300SL that seems to be in very good condition. This one only has 15,000 miles on it and it has AMG wheels. The buttons and switches work, and a 3M car bra has been installed. The price for this one is $21,500 and it's available in Colorado. Click here to see more.

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Junkyard Find: Gray-Market 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

The Truth About Cars

Of all the European-market new cars that flooded into the United States during the wild gray-market years of the early and middle 1980s , the Mercedes-Benz W126 S-Class appears to have been the most popular. Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado.

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Mercedes-Benz and BMW to sell car-sharing JV SHARE NOW to Stellantis

Green Car Congress

Mercedes-Benz Mobility and BMW Group intend to sell their car-sharing joint venture SHARE NOW to Stellantis. Together, both shareholders have developed SHARE NOW into the market leader in Europe and continuously developed it further, including new offers such as long-term car sharing.

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Junkyard Find: 1995 Subaru Legacy L Wagon with 366,223 miles

The Truth About Cars

When it comes to junkyard cars with impressively high final odometer numbers, Toyotas , Hondas , Volvos and Mercedes-Benzes seem to be the most likely to have driven better than 400,000 miles during their lives. Well, today's Junkyard Find is the highest-mile discarded Fuji Heavy Industries product I've ever found.

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Junkyard Find: 1988 Volvo 740 GLE with 403,348 miles

The Truth About Cars

Today we'll honor the 740 longroof by admiring one that drove past the 400k-mile mark during its career. This isn't the highest-mile Volvo 740 wagon I've ever found in a car graveyard. That honor belongs to a 1990 740 Turbo wagon with 493,549 miles , spotted at the Oakland Pick-n-Pull back in 2020.

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Mercedes-Benz sets Pikes Peak diesel record with near-production C 300 d

Green Car Congress

Mercedes-Benz has set a new record for the diesels in the Pikes Peak hill-climb race with a near-production C 300 d 4MATIC. mile) route—which includes 156 bends with a change in altitude of 1439 meters (4,721 feet)—in just 11.37 As is customary for a racing car, the interior was cleared out. l/100 km) highway.

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The first electric-car president? Ike Eisenhower liked them

Baua Electric

At least a couple of presidents have been drivers of electric cars, but they’re not all in the recent past. Long before Ike became perhaps the 20th century’s most famous general, Eisenhower drove around in an early electric car that belonged to his in-laws. The two courted, then married on July 1, 1916.