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Agreed. I'd be hard pressed to name much of anything foreign or domestic that was very good in the 70s/early 80s. The Japanese makes didn't have as many QC issues as many domestic ones did, but they were so cheaply built that they were nothing but rust within a couple years.
Mercedes Benz 240D, much better quality than most.
 
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Never had a D but my 1973 Mercedes 280C was a fun and dependable car to drive. Really enjoyed that car.
Here Mercedes Benz was the default taxi, usually 200D or 240D, did easily one million km and above.

And after a million km still had a good second hand value. Not so much today but G-wagens are still very popular and hold ist value, even G from the eighties, MB 240GD is not a particularly fast car....
 
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Here all the three German premium brands are very popular first time cars, and of course Volvo and VW.
 
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I still have a Mercedes 240D with manual transmission. About 350K miles and runs like a top, but unsafe to drive as slow as it is. It can't get out of its own way, no airbags, etc.
 
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I still have a Mercedes 240D with manual transmission. About 350K miles and runs like a top, but unsafe to drive as slow as it is. It can't get out of its own way, no airbags, etc.
Yes, it's slow, have a VW transporter with 78hp and if I load it up to max with trailer it passes 5000kg, can't imagine how slow it would be.

Here in Europe it was a common with small engines, it was a very big step in price to go up, and if we talk 240D era just to have a diesel with automatic was a big deal, few other European cars could give you that combination, and none was close to the quality that a 240D had.

Automatic gearing was simple, if you had that you fell in to a few category's, you was disabled, a Mercedes Benz or US car driver. Now the manual gearing is almost gone, maybe 5% of the market.
 
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Reportedly, Tesla does not handle the cold very well. Has there been an issue with that in Norway?
No, it has not been any problems, as far as I know.
But it's not a big surprise that heat pumps don't work well at very low temperatures and that will make range shorter.
But again, Norway is not that cold but here I live -20 celsius and below is common tempratur in periods and those EVs seems to work just fine.
 

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