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Originally Posted by deanyel
Rack and pinion steering has two primary advantages, both fall to the manufacturer - it's cheap, and you get to sell lots of replacement units.
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I think the 210 was Mb's first R&P car and was not without fault but that was taken care of later. It's called the customer financed test program.
As far as condemning rack and pinion steering, you are off base. I think most cars (maybe all) these days have R&P steering and they are quite reliable. Plenty of MB recirculating ball boxes have failed and how many posts have we seen about loose steering which was likely an adjustment problem. I have owned two R&P MBs now and find the steering to be superior in feel to all the old MB recirculating ball MBs I've owned.
And there is another little German car builder across town from MB that went to R&P steering 45 years ago and it seems to have worked out quite well.
Porsche.