As Golfergal pointed out, no matter what kind of car you buy, or how much you spend, it's possible to get a lemon. Every manufacture builds them, it's simply a cruel joke of fate.
Sometimes an entire model line is tagged as lemons. I.E. ...General Motors Vega, Fords Edsal, and for Chrysler, I'd have to say it was the 1957 Plymouth. Even to this day (50 years later) I know people of my fathers generation who would never by another Chrysler product because of that one particular car.
In this forum you will read what to some, may sound like a lot of people complaining about their cars. Truth be told, if I had found the forum before actually buying my car, I may have had second thoughts about making the purchase. Finally it occurred to me, where else are you going to hear more complaints about something than on a web site dedicated to that subject?
The XF may never developed a reputation as being as dependable as a Honda or Toyota, but it's certainly no Vega or Edsal either, or as Firebase calls it "Junk on wheels". But to him, feeling that way about his car is understandable, because an electrical short that can't be found (only smelled) would scare the heck out of me too. I would certainly never park the car in my garage without disconnecting the battery.
To those of you who say that you will never own another Chrysler product, why not look at it the same way Robin Williams did in his movie, The world according to Garp. When the house he was looking at to buy gets crashed into by a plane right before his eyes, he turns to the real estate agent and says, "We'll take it, It's been pre-disastered, what are the odds of anything bad happening to it again?" So what are the odds of getting another "lemon" from Chrysler?