Elise and a potential Mondeo.

Are you tryin to be me Nick? :scared:

 

No one wants to be ginger, Chris

 

I looked at the Legend and ended up with a Merc beater for the very same reason.

Plus - you can ge a nice 2.6 V6 in a Mer which is a bit more frugal.

Big cars are excellent value for money nowadays

 

Nick,

That RLegendo only shares parts with the Vigor, which doesn't come here.

It's a lovely, refined big car, in a sort of Senator-ish way inside.

It's FWD, but Honda used to do engineering back then. They put the V6 inline, with the Diff in frone (like a Sierra 4x4 with the RWD missing) so it's got decent turn-in.

Unlike a Jag, it won't self-destruct. But you will need to pay main dealer prices for the bits you can't get.

I'm waiting for the prices of the stillborn current model to plummet. The SH-AWD requires detailed exploration. Even if the engine's now in the wrong place.

 

and even less people want to be a lawyer :bitchslap:

 

What year did Merc reliability become shat?

 

It was a gradual process, related to the amount of FREDs fitted.

I'd say the W210 was the end of the E-class and the W201 the end of the C-class.

And the princess-squasher W140 was the last bulletproof S, if not concrete-proof.

 

This months PC magazine has a page about buying the 740i V8.. down to

 

1.Buy a JCB Sitemaster.

2.Dig hole.

3.Push 740i into hole with Sitemaster.

4.Backfill hole.

But until that point, a lot of car for the dough.

 

I am getting unreasonably swayed by an BMW E39 523i or 528i SE Auto as a beater. All the other logical choices just don't tick any of the petrolhead boxes. Apart from maybe a Merc.