My Crossfire has the crappy design quality of my '72 Mercury Capri and the crappy build quality of my '77 Dodge van combined with customer support from the uncaring.

My '92 Mitsubishi Eclipse (built on a Chrysler assembly line in the midwest) was a great car, still going fast comfortably until it was fatally shortened by a woman on a cell phone after 12 years and 142,000 miles.

The only time I think of my Crossfire as a Mercedes is when I try to get one of it's many defects repaired and I'm told that "everything is within specifications".