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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
That's quite a good mileage for a car of this size. When an uncle of mine had an early Suzuki Vitara with a Volkswagen 1.6D engine swap, it got around 5.2L/100km on a regular basis with my lead-footed uncle driving it. Considering the Vitara had the manual, while your Mercedes has an old-school automatic which charges its toll on fuel-efficiency, it's quite impressive.
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totally agreee, I am also very impressed, had a mercedes 190(w201) or "baby benz" from 1987 with the same engine and manual about 10 years ago I managed 5,4liter/100km with this at best and ususally about 5,5liter/100km
the only difference between the baby benz and my current mercedes is that is “Diesel ’89” initiative wich gives a slightly better swirl and a whopping 3 more hp, this car is both automatic and much larger/heavier
also had a baby benz with a 5 cylinder 2.5 diesel 90hp also from 1987, very front heavy and not that fuel efficient at 6.5liter/100km
also had two bmw 525tds touring (1993 and 1994) 2.5 liter 6 cylinder 143hp wonderful engines and cars, on real diesel these run about 6.5liter/100km but the crappy diesel from the pump here got about 7.2liter/100km
had a few vw diesels too, vw golf, had a 1988 1.6 NA with awesome 54hp the most fuel efficient car ive had 4,5liter/100km but engine had bad compresion
also had a 1992 vw golf ECOdiesel same 1.6 engine with turbo and 68hp this was always thirsty at 5.6liter/100km but after turning up fuel it actually got down to 5.2liter/100km and went a lot better