Originally Posted by
Aoshi
Stereotypical, not really, its well known that older bmws have bad electric systems, but jaguar is where that really comes from in all their glorinous. Until they switched over the the bosch system their's were horrific.
Every old Volvo that I have owned has been great to me... and 90% of them are the same way
Mercedes on the other hand... It seems hit or miss with those as well... My dad's 87 420SEL had some elec problems among other things, but his 84 300SD ran awesome and really had nothing wrong with it other than the fact it probably did the 1/4 in more time than a dump truck with a full load.