Mercedes electronically limited these at 155 mph. Mine was a rocket on the highway, but not nearly as nimble as the 300D/300E. I had both at the same time and the 400E was hard to throw around corners but more than made up for it with power. 500E's were an altogether different beast.
That 2nd gear start on Mercedes is annoying. I did use manual shifting (b-2-3-d) a few times. I like how there are shift point dots in the speedo. Other than that, still going strong for all those miles!
do you have a faulty car, never lit ASD. On my E300 starts off from the first and slips when shifting to second, while blink ASD. Sorry for my English) faulty kickdown
It would seem that, going from when the speedo twitches above 0 to 60 is consistently around 7 seconds. Maybe you're counting the slight lag between WOT and transmission response? Lastly, if the kickdown switch is broken, it'll start in 2nd gear.
+Messerschmit452 Thanks for watching. The time is from the moment the accelerator pedal is depressed until the moment it reaches 60 mph. The time would include any hesitation or lag, which is what I wanted to show on a 22-year-old car approaching 275,000 miles.
Lol It's the first thing I noticed. Don't think it would have done even one acceleration test if there was no oil pressure. It is weird though those don't fail I haven't seen one fail yet...................
The E420 has the same M119 motor but 4.2 liters of displacement rather than 4.0 liters in the 400E. Also, this particular 400E has clocked ~275k miles!
+Diesel Review There is 245k on the clock on my E420. Both the 400E and E420 have a 4.2l v8. There is no 4.0l version. The reason my E420 is quicker than a stock 400E/E420 is because it has lost 520lbs. Its also getting a 2.82 rear end soon to drop the 0-60 time even more.
+Diesel Review Just the S class and SL. I still have caps an rotors. Only differences are the pre 1992 and the 1992 have WOT fuel enrichment LH modules. Adds 15hp under WOT.
