Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mercedes Benz Durability for the Record

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My son's former MB E420 was a rust bucket at an early age.  Really shameful.

Fellippe Galletta wrote:

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, LS <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

Mauricio, agree on most of your points. On a semi related tangent...

The sad fact is that the 80s and 90s are gone. The new German stuff is
"fairly well built" but nothing can touch an E30 BMW or W123 MB for
construction.

1989-
   Euro-excellent materials, excellent build/reliability
   Japanese-decent materials, excellent build/reliability
   Domestic-Mostly CRAP

2009-
   Euro-excellent materials, decent build/reliability
   Japanese-excellent materials, excellent build/reliability
   Domestic-(Caddie/Corvette/Big Trucks/Mustang/Viper/G8/etc.) are way
above Euro and just     a step down from Japanese

For some reason, the public isn't getting this message though.

I just spoke with an enthusiastic E92 M3 owner last week. He also has an
E39 M5 and openly admitted that it's had a lot of repairs (VANOS, front
control arms, assorted electrical glitches, clutch problems) all after only
85k miles. He chalks up the design deficiencies as "maintenance".  He bought
it because of various E30 and E34 BMWs he's had. He asked me about my CTS-V
and without hesitation commented that he wouldn't buy American because of a
bad experience with a 1989 Pontiac Sunbird.

It's more about car religion than actual science or tech unfortunately.
This is the buyer thought process and mentality car makers have to deal with
today.

God bless them.

LS

This entire post needs to be stickied on all the major car forums out
there....if anything the last paragraph sums it up perfectly.

LS, the saying about first impressions are true. Once made, extremely hard
to change.

FG
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Re: Mercedes Benz Durability for the Record	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Martin Stark (MStarkCopper.net)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:19:55 -0700 (PDT)