Mercedes-Benz 300D

Mercedes Benz 300D

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Mercedes-Benz 300D

The first Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coach es, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG , after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz....
300D automobile

Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
(not to be confused with the 300d

Mercedes-Benz Type 300

The Mercedes-Benz Type 300 were the company's largest and most-prestigious models throughout the 1950s. Analogous to today's Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the Type 300 cars were elegant, powerful, exclusive, and expensive....
) was introduced in 1975 (U.S.

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
) and started its life by placing the newly developed 3.0 litre five-cylinder

Cylinder (engine)

A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders are commonly arranged side by side in a bank, or engine block, which is typically casting from aluminum or cast iron before precision features are machined into it....
naturally aspirated diesel

Diesel

Diesel or diesel fuel in general is any fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillation of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid or gas to liquid diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted....
engine 617.910 in a W115 chassis four-cylinder Mercedes-Benz 240D

Mercedes-Benz 240D

The Mercedes-Benz 240D was introduced in 1973 in Europe as a new diesel-powered variant of the Mercedes-Benz W115, outranking the 220D as Mercedes' most powerful diesel car....
diesel. For the American market those cars only came with power window

Power window

File:Power window switches on drivers door.jpgPower windows or electric windows are automobile windows which can be raised and lowered by depressing a button or switch, as opposed to using a hand-turned Crank ....
s and automatic transmission

Automatic transmission

An automatic transmission is an automobile gearbox that can change gear ratios automatically as the vehicle moves, freeing the driver from having to shift gears manual transmission....
.

The W123 chassis of the Mercedes-Benz 300D was introduced as a 1976 model (1977 U.S.).

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Mercedes-Benz Type 300

United States

Cylinder (engine)

Diesel

Mercedes-Benz 240D

Power window

Automatic transmission

Diesel engine

A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine which operates using the diesel cycle . Diesel engines have the highest thermal efficiency compared to any internal combustion or external combustion engine....
with indirect injection

Indirect injection

In an internal combustion engine, the term indirect injection refers to a fuel injection where fuel is not directly injected into the combustion chamber....
(using a Bosch MW (for the American market) or W (for the rest of the world) piston-type mechanical fuel injection pump) produced 80 to 88 hp

Horsepower

Horsepower is the name of several non-International System of Units units of power . It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses....
(59 to 65 kW), depending on the year or country, from an extra 600 cm³ more displacement

Engine displacement

Engine displacement is the volume swept by the all pistons of an engine in a single movement from top dead center to bottom dead center....
than the four-cylinder Mercedes-Benz 240D diesel. The W123 chassis evolution continued with the addition of the 300D Turbo Diesel in 1982 (1981 for station wagon), sporting a 3.0 litre five-cylinder turbocharged engine which was originally developed in 1978 and first offered in the US market for 300SD models in 1979. This engine developed 118 to 123 hp (88 to 91 kW) and considerably improved the car's performance while still maintaining the superb reliability and efficiency of earlier models. In addition to the sedan (300D) a station wagon (300TD) and coupe (300CD) were also produced. The 300TD also had optional rearward facing third row seat which could fold flat into the floor, which was also seen on Volvo

Volvo

The Volvo Group is a Sweden supplier of commercial vehicles such as trucks, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, aerospace components and financial services....
, Saab 95

Saab 95

The Saab 95 was a 7-seater, 2-door station wagon made by Saab Automobile. Initially it was based on the Saab 93 sedan version, but the model's development throughout the years followed closely that of the Saab 96 since the 93 was put off the market in 1960....
and Ford Taurus

Ford Taurus

The Ford Taurus is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in the United States. Originally introduced in the 1986 model year, it has remained in near continuous production for more than two decades, making it the fourth oldest nameplate that is currently sold in the Ford lineup....
station wagons.

Production of the W123 chassis

Mercedes-Benz W123

The Mercedes-Benz W123 cars were produced by the Germany manufacturer from 1976 to 1985.The W123 models surpassed their predecessor, the Mercedes-Benz W114 models, as the most successful Mercedes, selling over 2.5 million cars before being replaced by the Mercedes-Benz W124 after 1985....
ended in 1985 but in many countries as many as 75% of the cars originally registered remain on the road today 20 years later, a testament to the quality and durability of the original design. The 300D badge continued on in the W124 chassis

Mercedes-Benz W124

W124 is the Mercedes-Benz internal chassis-designation for the 1984 to 1995 version of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class. The W124 models replaced the Mercedes-Benz W123 models after 1985 and were superseded by the Mercedes-Benz W210 E-Class after 1995....
family until 1993, but as a completely different design. The W123 is an ultra reliable automobile which routinely goes over 500,000 miles in its lifetime.

The W124 chassis

Mercedes-Benz W124

Mercedes-Benz E-Class

The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is a range of executive car cars manufactured by Mercedes-Benz in various engine and body configurations. The E initially stood for Einspritzung, ; a new feature in volume production vehicles at the time that the E-Class first appeared, with the E as a suffix to the engine nomenclature in the 1950s....
facelift) has the OM603

Mercedes-Benz OM603

The OM60x engine family was a straight engine Diesel automobile engine from Mercedes-Benz used from 1984 through 1999. The 603 saw limited use in the Mercedes-Benz W124, Mercedes-Benz W126 and Mercedes-Benz W140 model vehicles....
engine, which is a 3.0 litre six-cylinder turbocharged engine that appeared for one year only, 1987. The Turbo Diesel W124 appeared anew in 1990 until 1993, as the 300D 2.5 Turbo, with the OM602 engine. The latter engine was a 2.5 litre five cylinder turbocharged engine.