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Originally Posted by MTUpower
Yes MB's are expensive. A subject I did not raise nor is it relevant. Yes american cars/trucks can be nice and have little maint. Again not relevant. Read what I asked and then re-answer. Don't mean to be flippant.
I think of crap cars as
Pinto
Gremlin
Corvair
Yugo
many Fiat's. Early Korean cars. Many French cars. Many English cars.
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Nor did I, raise anything about the price of a Mercedes. I simply stated that any built after 1998 are crap. I don't expect to see a 2008 S550 on the road in 2033. They'll be leased, then some poor suckers will buy them off lease and eventually the electronics/air suspension,etc will be so cost prohibitive to repair, that they'll be dismantled. $7000+ for a Command Center at my last glance and $6000+ for air suspension.
By the by, my first car was a handed down 1977 Vega.. It was in the family for a total of 8 years and 95,000 miles before I sold it and bought my 85 GTI. In those 8 years, it let us down 3 times: Once due to a tune up that was paid for and not done. One was the only belt on it breaking and third was yours-truly doing neutral drops, snapping the ring gear on the third rocket launch. Even after all that, at 95K when I sold it, it burned LESS oil than Mercedes finds "acceptable" consumption of 1ltr/1000km today... Pice of crap ? Certainly. But it was a reliable piece of crap.
Point being, yes there are plenty of ****ty cars out there and Benz is not immune to building them. The new C-class commercials make me laugh. "We built it with door hinges that can support a 200lb man....." Meaning they built it like they built my 126 25 years ago ?!?!?!? Let's hope the new C,Cl,S,etc is a return to engineers building cars and not accountants.