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Q.I have been driving Japaness cars all my life. They are good, but I am tired of them. I drove Audi A6 for months. It was so bad - Heavy, easy to break down, drink gas like crazy, difficult to handle... I drove a Benz E320, it is so big that I can rarely find a parking for it. I used stick shift, and it is extremely difficult to start moving in first gear. I drove a 70's Jetter for 1 year. I loved it so much, but they are no long in production. It is light, responsive. The only problem is it looks so cheap and I can not find it anywhere. So, my questions are: 1 Are all Benz super heavy, and difficult in moving in first gear? How is the C-Class and the 2door CLK? 2 Is BMW any better than Benz? I never drove one, because all of my friends who have BMW don't feel like others touch their baby.

A.I can see getting "tired" of Japanese cars but you'll likely notice that the maintenance is a lot more expensive on the BMW and Mercedes cars. Also, the reliability (in spite of the claimed "German precision") isn't very good on either German car relative to the Japanese cars The fad here at work is to buy 3 and 5 series BMWs. Out of the 4 people I know that have bought these status symbols, all have had problems with them (mostly but not limited to electrical problems). One even caught fire when less than a year old.

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