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Was the W140 S280/S320 SWB available with manual transmission(stick-shift) in Europe?

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Old 09-19-2006, 09:51 PM
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Was the W140 S280/S320 SWB available with manual transmission(stick-shift) in Europe?

Was the W140 S280/S320 SWB available with manual transmission(stick-shift) in Europe? (with cloth seats, not MB-Tex or leather)

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1993 300SEL/S320
I've seen cloth seats but I don't think there was a manual.
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Yes, there was. Like this one
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Originally Posted by creamypanda
Was the W140 S280/S320 SWB available with manual transmissionin Europe with cloth seats.
You Americans are lucky, your cars are very well equipped as standard equipment.

S280 was available all its lifetime with stick, S320 in 1991 to 1992. All the rest were automatic. Leather was an option, cloth standard.

In Europe the basic W140 model was really a masochist version: stick, cloth and no aircon.
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Originally Posted by markku
You Americans are lucky, your cars are very well equipped as standard equipment.

S280 was available all its lifetime with stick, S320 in 1991 to 1992. All the rest were automatic. Leather was an option, cloth standard.

In Europe the basic W140 model was really a masochist version: stick, cloth and no aircon.
I think the asia spec cars are the best we have alot of options on our 320s that even a S500 in the US would not have and some S600 options.

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