[martin_fierro]

The Mercedes I owned was the biggest piece of crap EVER.

I'll only buy Toyota and Honda from now on.

[desertcry]

Those who buy german cars have money to throw away. German cars have nothing to offer beyond excessive price, their quality is less Japanese cars or even US made cars. The only german car I ever owned was a VW circa 1960, it was cheap then, though quality, it was not.

[pt17]

The Mercedes I owned was the biggest piece of crap EVER

I've a friend who had the same experience. We have, though, a 3 year old BMW 3 series that's one of the best handling/driving cars I've ever owned. So far we've had no problems and it hasn't cost us a cent in maintenance (free oil/filter changes and no tune-up till over 100K miles :-) I wouldn't own a 5, 6 or 7 series, though. What I'd really like, though, is a 4wd Accord if they made one.

[BradyLS]

A friend had their Toyota totaled in an accident. Before the week was out, they were driving the same car bought with the inusrance check!

[q_an_a]

do you think that the merger of Chrysler and MB will help either? I don't and in ten years as the dealership merge all dodge and Chrysler's to fewer and fewer models, everyone will realize that the age of German leadership passed to a sad end.

[Indrid Cold]

God, no kidding. I bought two older (88 and a 91) Mercedes this last spring and both of them are up for sale. I went back to a Mitsubishi Montero.