To be 100 percent clear, here are some things you need to know about me.
1) I do not live in Williamsburg;
2) I do not live in Austin;
3) I don't wear vegan Saucony shoes; and,
4) If it's a choice between a bike and a vehicle with four wheels, you better believe I am hopping in the auto.
Not everyone sees the world this way. They prefer their Duck Dynasty beards, craft beers and paying $72 for eggs.
Turns out they've also been fans of things like Saabs from the 1980s and old-school Mercedes-Benz 300TD wagons. While I can certainly appreciate the affection for quirk, the Mercedes actually is a damn fine automobile.
I know, as my grandfather had a bright orange 300D sedan. You can rack up the miles on these things for days and, I must admit, at some point in life I'd love to drive a 300D just to see why my grandfather connected with that particular pumpkin orange three-pointed star — he said it was "English Red." There's stories of these generation Mercedes products lasting for up to a million miles.
Having said all of this though, I've got to ask: In 2015, is the Mercedes-Benz 300 a STUD or DUD? Are these hipsters onto something or is it merely hype?
...I mean it literally. This thing will. Not. Die.
“You cannot kill them,” Phil Skinner, Kelley Blue Book’s collector car market editor, said recently. “They just keep on running. It’s Mercedes technology—and on a station wagon! It’s the perfect combination.”
Jonathan Klinger, a spokesman for car insurer Hagerty, said almost the exact same thing.
“If you say ‘overbuilt, overengineered, bulletproof,’ this is the era and the series that comes to mind,” he said. “This is literally the car you cannot kill...
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