But, assuming away the affordability and frustration issues, the 5 series is a nicer car on day-to-day driving.
Cadillacs and Lincolns would be the more apt comparisons with BMWs and Mercedes. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
The VW 2.0 Litre turbo diesel which you can get in the Golf or Passat is supposed to be v. good too. notes from no w here
Regulatory: As I understand it (as always, I may be wrong), we don't have diesels due to the way diesel emissions are regulated in the US.
Can't see it being because of old associations with the engines. At least not beyond pushing the cars for a couple years until people see that they're not all those things anymore. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
granted, the distances are another dimension entirely, but i wonder if that's why american suspensions, even in luxury cars, seem suspended in sponge, compared to the equivalent euro guzzler.
i also remember the astonishing number of dead (especially truck) tire shells littering the sides of highways in the USA, something which is rare over here. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
