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Originally posted by zafarhayatkhan
MB's cost more to maintain compared to other brands like Toyota/Lexus. There is no question about it.
The root cause is the MB design/manufacturing problems.
They cost more because MB design/manufacturing systems are inefficient and they have like that since the 80's, possibly earlier.
The MSRP for my 94 E320 was $43000.00; I would not have paid more than $20,000 for it.
This is my first and probably the last MB, I am switching to Lexus as well.
Compared to other cars that I have owned, my 94 E320 was far worse. It was in like new condition, one owner, MB dealership maintained. I spent over $7000.00 in just the first year of ownership! All MB/MB Supplier design/manufacturing defects and/or MB dealership incompetence.
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While I feel deeply sorry for you for two reasons: 1) that your MB was troublesome and 2) for you have paid $43,000 for it
I think the M-B/Lexus competition is seen through "a bit blurred" lens...
Since 1995, I've seen plenty of articles from the American continent complaining about German cars' unreliability, while they placed M-Bs, BMWs and Porsches almost every time in the last places in reliability top; on the other side, German press articles complain about the "poor quality of manufacture" in American-made cars - guess some big corporate interest was involved
On the other side, most W123s, W124s, W126s and W201s one sees on the street here in Romania were never repaired at the standards of your M-B stealerships - a Romanian will never pay $5,000-10,000 a year to fix his M-B, we simply don't earn that much! And the fact they still run well, even after 25 years of harsh use, poor fuel and hole-littered roads, makes their owners, when asked, to shake their heads and say
"this is how German cars are, they're deathless"
Now I wonder: why do our M-Bs (speaking strictly those on the forum) fail?.....
or they actually don't, just we ask too much from them? I've seen M-Bs or BMWs with 600,000km on the odometer, but no Toyotas or Hondas even nearby
~Nautilus