Decent, cheap W210s are few and far between in 2023, but one or two still exist...
This week we’ve got something that, like the centre section of Shed’s double bed, has hardly been used in recent memory. It’sWhen you say it like that it doesn’t seem all that special, but 73k in 25 years is under 3,000 a year and more remarkably it’s taken twelve years to do the last 3,000. The last owner bought it in 2004 as a six-year-old car with, Shed is guessing from the MOT history, probably 50,000 miles on it.
Sorry about the numberwang there, but cars with such a low mileage normally wear exotic badges and sit in a climate-controlled environment drily gathering value. Our Shed is a £1,789 commoner’s car that’s been living the life of an exotic for the last couple of decades. Not driving a Mercedes for years on end might have seemed like a kindly policy to some long-term owners but it’s not necessarily the kindest treatment for these cars, which after years of pampering often respond well to a good old Italian tune-up on the dual carriageway.
When it was in good shape this powertrain gave the 1,580kg E320 a 7.7sec 0-62mph time, a top speed of nearly 150mph and an average fuel consumption figure of around 27mpg. Pre-’96 W210s still had the old 217hp straight six which gave you a sense of heavy-flywheeled muscularity that wasn’t quite as obvious in later V6s like our Shed’s. Diffs could leak, signalled by weird sounds from the back of the car.
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