My '96 E320 has both notorious problems of W210 (1) rusty spring perch, fixed and paid 100% my a MB dealer at 71K miles (2) head gasket leaks at 78K miles, paid $1711 out of my own pocket to have it fix. This is not what I have expected for a $50K car... I gave MB a chance, but it failed to have me back as a repeated customer. I will keep current MB until I throw it away (250K+ miles, I hope). This is my first MB and will be my last. I will be going back to my Japanese quality , i.e. Lexus... My '87 Camry has 195K miles without a single problem , only scheduled maintenance. My son's '97 Maxima has 120K miles and still going strong, My friend at work has almost 300K miles on his '96 Maxima, without problems with head gasket, transmission, rusty spring perches... What else do you want? Maybe boring but you can't beat reliability