Well, I did notice several times it was touching 75 and 77, but on return,
it rained HARD all the way home, so cruising at 70 was sorta pushing it.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Thomas" <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 126 still hard to beat
Only 70? OK I think I understand. I have noticed driving from SC to NC
to VA that the nannying gets more and more the further north you go, north
of VA it is full-on. Speed limits drop in NC. At the border going into
VA on I95 there are like 6 signs promising all kinds of evil if you speed,
don't wear a seatbelt or helmet, if you don't use your lights and wipers,
and other stuff, and the speed limit drops again. {Oh yeah, and one that
says "Welcome to Virginia!" Unh huh} I don't know, I wonder sometimes if
the War of Northern Aggression had the wrong winner. I sometimes wonder
how people tolerate that kind of stuff.
Rant off... You are right about the 126, even my wife noticed. I told her
after we got her SD, that when you get on the highway you will notice that
the faster you go, the better the car rides and handles, like it is glued
to the pavement. She came back from some road trip to Columbia or
somewhere, and said, "You were right! It does ride much better." Now for
her to notice that... it's gotta be good. I don't know if the SDL would
be noticeably different, but the 126 is a fine road machine. Maybe when
you get tired of yours, or don't feel like driving it any more, you can
send it down to a more civilized locale for some extended comparison
testing?
--R
WILTON wrote:
'Took the 91 350SDL on 520-mile trip yesterday and today. Mileage sorta
disappointing, but that 126 is one fine driving/riding machine. Fill-up
at 417 miles showed ~21.5 mpg (~25% of it stop-and-go back and forth
here-and-yon in Charlotte, NC); rest of it 70 mph on interstate hiway,
'cept 20 minutes or so sitting in traffic creeping to a NASCAR race
(others going to race, not I). The mileage figure is suspect, anyway,
cause SWMBO did the before and after fueling, and I did not observe the
"fill-to point." Obviously, I wasn't terribly serious about checking it,
anyway. ;<))))
Wilton
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