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Originally Posted by MaDalton
most companies did indeed have problems - especially in the 90ties when they tried to build everything as cheap as possible - but today i would dare to say the quality has never been better.
The cars that we consider nowadays top quality - like the Mercedes W123 - used to have lots more issues back then that we would like to remember
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Old engines from 1980s etc could even be driven 1.000.000 km. Not only merc, but even WV. Ok not all, but 500.000km was peace of cake. Nowadays you are lucky to get good 300.000 km out of the new cars.
Not to mention the quality of the body itself, used to be tough and nowadays it is just thin stuff that gets rusty fast..
Not only German cars, but cars in general.
They used to build it for 10+ years, nowadays they build it to hold the leasing time (5-6 years).
Addendum: I did not see the other user posted the same thing about engines and corrosion and durability
