There’s no boost gauge in the instrument panel of the Mercedes-Benz 300TD station wagon. There’s a turbocharger on the diesel engine, so there’s a boost as well as adequate power; but the details were strictly business, of concern only to the engine and the designers, and of no concern to the driver, who is, so to speak, only along for the ride.
And that, in essence, described the 300TD wagon.
Nor is it really a complaint, or a drawback. Rather, this station wagon was all business: comfortable transportation and rapid, efficient travel were what Mercedes believed station wagons were for, so that’s what id delivered.
Mercedes entered the station-wagon class only on occasion, when the market warrants and when the firm’s main product lines had basic components that were easily adapted to building a wagon with the fewest extra parts.
That’s the situation here, with the new 300-class sedans and the new 6-cylinder diesel engine. The wagon had the same suspension; indeed, it had the same platform as the long-wheelbase sedan, and it got the turbocharger and the engine and automatic transmission, the ABS brakes and so forth, all with the wagon body.
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