In the four years he has owned it, Hamza Abigaba says the most he has spent on servicing his Mercedes W123 is Shs160,000. This replaced engine oil, oil filter and greasing, a regular recommended ...

It is the Mercedes I used to draw in my school textbooks as a kid. The twin headlights in a single pod, the vertical chrome Mercedes grille, the ‘V’ bonnet. And later, when I just started driving, I ...

“W123” is Mercedes’ internal designation for its “E-Class” from 1976-1985. My grandmother had many choices in 1979. She could have purchased the basic 240D diesel, 300D diesel, 280E sedan, 280CE coupe ...

The W123 Mercedes E-Class doesn’t typically tend to get as much love as later generations when it comes to tuning. That likely has to do with limited aftermarket support, but when a modified one does ...

Anywhere on the planet south of about the Bosporus you'll find dusty tracks choked with Mercedes W123s. Because of the ubiquity of the Mercedes - and the memory of pungent, potholed taxi rides through ...

Something Mercedes-Benz would have never done: a couple of fastback coupés for the W114 and W123 model series. During the late sixties and the seventies, Mercedes-Benz never took the risk to leave the ...

As one of the leading suppliers to Mercedes at OEM level, it is little wonder that German suspension giant BILSTEIN has so many damper solutions for the perennial Mercedes W123. These hardy classics ...

Today, AMG is the in-house performance arm of Mercedes-Benz. Cars with AMG badges on them generally come with more performance-oriented bits, extra power and a higher price tag. And all of that can be ...

In this episode of Restore It, I finish the welding on the Mercedes W123, focusing on both the bottom right and bottom left of the front windscreen. The condition of these areas was worse than ...

We've shown you Nurburgring laps involving contraptions that were way out of their comfort zone on the Green Hell on tons of occasions, but the adventure we're bringing you today shows what happens ...

The Mercedes W123 is a car you buy if you enjoy the nagging suspicion that everything, including the bits you can't see, has been screwed together properly. It's also the car you buy if you enjoy the ...

A Vintage Mercedes-Benz W123 failed to start while going for a Himalayan trip in India. The owner blames it on E20 petrol as ...