Yep designed to fail and be replaced. Was talking to a local car enthusiast who has his own garage as well, owns a lot of classics and a few modern classics, his take was he would not have anything after 2002 as he felt that is when things went South.
People in the UK are obsessed by car badge snobbery, even if they don't have a pot to piss in many seem to have to be seen to 'have made it' by owning a prestige brand; fair play each to their own but given the reliability surveys as you say the Mercs, Range Rovers, Audi, Porsche, BMW's don't do that well anymore.
People in the UK are obsessed by car badge snobbery, even if they don't have a pot to piss in many seem to have to be seen to 'have made it' by owning a prestige brand; fair play each to their own but given the reliability surveys as you say the Mercs, Range Rovers, Audi, Porsche, BMW's don't do that well anymore.