Sorry, I just can't see that happening. The 123 went over 500,000 miles and is now setting next to my barn. When I put it back on the road, I fully expect to have it in the same reliable condition as the 124.

These cars are machines like any other. If you keep an eye on what's going on, you can tell when something needs attention. I don't consider myself a neophyte about cars. I've been pulling wrenches since I was in elementary school. I grew up in a "car" family. I've driven well over a million miles and I've seen alot of things about alot of different cars. A solid built car like a Benz doesn't just drive along for several hundred thousand miles, then fall apart all at once like in a cartoon or something.

What possibly could make a car do this simply because it is a certain make or model? Will things break over time? Of course, they are machinery that has to wear out at one point or another. But for it all to just collapse, sorry, but I just don't see that happening.

It's not as if my many hundreds of thousands of MB miles have been scattered across many cars. Most of these miles have been with two that have seen multiple hundreds of thousands of miles.

Sorry to be misconnecting here, but I just can't, at all, follow this logic.

Have a great day,