Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Products made crappy for you

On 5/13/2024 5:29 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

On Mon May 13 12:30:35 2024 Rolf Mantel  wrote:

Am 12.05.2024 um 22:00 schrieb Tom Kunich:

On Sun May 12 18:42:02 2024 Roger Merriman  wrote:

Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

Why doi you suppose someone would buy a Mercedes or a BMW which
are very poorly made vehicles for their price? I have been buying
used vehicles and Ford Taurus are dirt cheap and will drive
250,000 miles with little major repairs.
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Compare this to the 100,000 miles on a Mercedes. Or less for a
BMW. Of course you lose the status of paying $75,000 for a car
designhed to break down and leave you in the middle of nowhere.
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I?m not aware of either Mercedes or BMW being practically
mechanically unreliable, quite the reverse in fact.
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As ever different cars for different purposes and so on, see also
bikes for similar purposes and rather more on topic and frankly
interesting.

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Kelly Blue Book rates Mercedes the #1 least reliable car. Now you
have to temper that with the fact that Mercendes owners rarely keep a
car more than five years so unless they are extremely heavy auto
users you can't find many new car buyers complaining.

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Taxi drivers in Germany reported even in the 1980's their Merc going
easily over 500,000 miles, when most other cars were lucky reaching 100,000.

    Taxi Companies tend to take exceptional care of their cars which is unlike American drivers who may never even change the oil. This is so common that my car has an automatic message to change oil.

A friend has a new Mercedes. There's no dipstick and no place to add oil. The electronics signal when to 'return to dealer for service'.
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