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Originally Posted by rchase
Depends on what your looking at in "better made". If you consider cheap hard interior plastics and cloth seats to be "better made" more power too you. It really depends on the mission of the car. The Mercedes is a luxury car while he Subaru is a mass market car sold mostly to middle class consumers.
An example. A friend of mine has had several service visits for his $10k Sub Zero fridge. Does that make my $1000 Frigidare better made? His fridge has a lot more features and systems and will easily last for 30 years. When my fridge goes out it goes into a landfill.
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In my opinion, a Mercedes C-class is not a luxury car.
Let's also not forget something about the supposed huge gap in quality/durability/reliability between "older" Mercedes and "newer" Mercedes. My 1983 300CD's price when new when translated into 2005 $ value would cost somewhere between $70,000 and $80,000.
Mercedes simply can't build cars to that standard any longer. Who in their right mind would purchase a car like our old W123s and pay that kind of money for them? Relative to what it used to cost to buy a Mercedes, the newer ones are a tremendous value.