bmw 1 series & golf clubs

Just qualifying my prejudice against BMW, I know many love them and they are entitled to that oppinion, I am by no means right/wrong, just oppinionated!

Overpriced for what you get, poor build-quality for a premium brand, still using outdated instruments and switches, overpriced for servicing, parts & maintenance.

BMW regularly fail to do anything about common failures such as the vanos units, they know why they fail at £2000+fitting+vat per failure but ignore what they need to do to prevent the failures.

Ridiculous depreciation compared to other brands.

And yes, there is a huge problem with the image of BMW's.

I sell cars for a living, I very rarely touch Beemers even though there is a profit to be made, I only buy M3's or big-engined Z3's as they atleast have an edge to them which raises them above the mediocrity of the typical 3-series "mondeo man done good" type of car.

Mercedes-Benz every day of the week for me, the new c-class is stunning, modern, reliable, economical, will have good residuals for a premium car, comfort, wonderful drive and most of all it doesnt have the image problem.