New car - suggestions needed !!

You may or may not be concerned with economy and durability. However,

I own a 1996 VW Passat TDI (turbo diesel)
It has 254,000 miles on it. The body is in very good shape, but does have a few bubbles around some edges.
This past winter, left outdoors, no block heater or auxiliary devices, started with the temperature at 15 degrees below zero farenheit. It burns less than a quart of oil between 8 -to 10,000 mile oil changes (synthetic 5 - 30 weight). It still gets 45 mpg going 75-80mph.

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jeez hamburger, my leaf blower has a bigger engine than that bike.

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Why is it that farmerman has this puzzling need to incessantly rave about the power of his leaf blower?

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That's what farmers do gustav. I thought you were one
too? Pulled our legs, ha?

Take the Mercedes Prince, it's comfortable, even on those
lousy british roads.

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CJ

Our roads may well be lousy but they lead to some very nice places.

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I know spendius. So far, I've only seen a few of them,
but they're breath taking beautiful places.

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farmerman wrote : "jeez hamburger, my leaf blower has a bigger engine than that bike. "

you are absolutely right, farmerman. it had a 99cc engine producing about 4.5 hp ... it did about 65 km/m max ... downhill ... with the wind at your back !

but it was impressive enough to allow me to get to know the future mrs h (in those days most germans were lucky if they could afford a bycicle or bycicle with "auxiliary" engine). who knows,maybe we'll be back to it before too long ? hbg

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So looks like the Merc is a clear winner.

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Now lets talk about the options. Real leather interior, right?

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Ofcourse !!! Is there any other kind ? Very Happy

Silver or Blue or black ?

Am leaning towards Blue with beige interior

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I like beige interior - couldn't get beige leather with my blue car, so.

(Since every third car here [still] is silver, my last two were silver, I've changed back to blue.)

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The probkem with blue is that it dirt shows on it too much (and I am notmuch for cleaning cars all the time)

Silver hides dust better.

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the prince wrote:

The probkem with blue is that it dirt shows on it too much.

Too much? Half on hour on the street = car wash.

the prince wrote:

Silver hides dust better.

I didn't need to wash it more than some take a shower (= every christmas time).

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If the car is to negotiate the London traffic, maybe you would be better off with just a little runaround......................

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I've thaught, the prince didn't want a BMW Shocked

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...and he doesn't want women either Wink

Beige interior gets dirty fast. Then of course, if you
don't have dogs and kids (like me), it should be doable.
MB has a lighter blue they call Orion Blue metalic, that's
quite nice.

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