The best car ever made

Let me tell you why the Mercedes Benz 300te is the best car ever made

Disclaimer this post is written by a 16 year old with little patience for good post writing

To start off this car can be as old as 31 years old. Production ranged from 1985-1995 with a large selection of engines and drive trains. There were many modified versions of this car which are really f’n cool. Mercedes claimed series of car to be an over engineered masterpiece, I 100% agree with this.

The Chassis

The chassis of the Mercedes Benz 300te made the e30 touring estates look really stupid. Like I said, this car is very over engineered. But being over engineered means it had a huge ton more features than competitors. Unlike the rounded lights of the e30, the S124 has squared headlights with really cool looking and very functional headlight wipers. The photo above has smoked out signal lamps that look absolutely sweggin. The hood release latch on the W124 is so absolutely genius. You yank the latch under the dash and out through the grill appears a grey plastic tab which you pull and lift the hood. There is no hood holder upper thing either which is very nice. When the engine bay needed work the hood moved up past the 45 degree point to a straight up and down 90 perpendicular to the engine. The chassis of this car is a 5 door station wagon which steel beemed doors. This car comfortable seats 7 (two rear facing). The mirrors on the w124 were different shapes and very small. The drag coefficient of this car is rather low which helps with the alright fuel economy you do get in this 3L powerhouse.

The engine

When I said 3L powerhouse I was joking. This car does have lots of hidden power though. The 3.0L m103 engine makes around 180hp in this day and age. The engine is a N/A 3.0L straight six (which believe it or not the 2JZ was copied off of). If you know how to drive this car (like myself) it can be pretty fun. The automatic transmission is a 4 speed paired up with the rear wheel drive or 4matic transmission. The engine does really like oil but thats okay because it’s a mercedes and its not supposed to be cheap so that everyone can afford it, only those who can love a car despite its expensive requirements.
This car gets about 16-18mpg in the city (if you drive responsibly) and about 22/23/24 on the highway.

I’ve pulled on non vtec civics with this car before and I can out run a 2013 Mazda 3 hatch too.

Features

This car (mine being 26 years old) has so many unbelieveable features for it’s time, (they all still work too). Honestly it makes for a better winter car than summer car. So mine specifically has 4matic AWD (the pioneer of AWD systems). Distributing 100% of torque to rear wheels (mode 1), 35/65 torque split when slip is detected (mode 2), 50/50 torque split in mode 3 when 2 or more wheels have started slipping and mode 4 where the speed is lower than 40km/h and more than 2 wheels have lost traction, the computer will lock the rear diff and send 50/50 torque spilt to all 4 wheels. I’ve never had to scrape the windshields either, being that the car has a mono wiper in the front which does a little shimmy in the middle to reach the top of the front windscreen and has rear window defrost along with another wiper blade in the back. The car also has automatic heated mirrows for outside. Power windows, power seats, heated seats, dual zone climate control, child safety locks, a power opening roof and very very comfortable recaro leather or cloth seats. This car has cruise control which adaptavely switches gears or applies more gas pedal when road conditions change.

Oh and the best part of this car is that it has a gorgeous little hood ornament which reminds you that you drive the best car ever made.

On road handling

The turning radius of this car like I said is very tight which is nice for parking lots and parking, the low speed handling is pretty bad, the car has alot of body roll considering it has lots of ground clearance and is kinda heavy (3800lbs). At higher speeds the suspension is really nice and soft but not a blown strut kinda feel its just like, “Oh look a dip in the road OMNOMNOM burp“. The power in 4th gear starting from 60mph is pretty good it pulls decently and can definitely outrun a civic in that speed zone. Low speeds though, this car is painfully slow.

Off road

This car off road is awesome and has a lot of potential. There is a decent amount of ground clearance paired up with 4matic AWD that it can hold it’s own in a mud puddle or snow bank.

There you go, that’s not all, but frankly im very tired of typing. That’s why I think this is the best car ever made.

Thanks to all your positive feedback and getting editors pick i’m going to write another post right now about adventures in the TE. and what a great f’n adventure mobile this thing makes.

Michael