Titch LS, Everything you say is true, The Germans and the Japs build the best cars in the world. You can read on here in many places that the LS has done a lot more then 180,000 miles and kept on going. Still feels like new, etc,etc. Some LS's are nudging 500,000 miles. The LS is one of the best built cars around. It all comes down to badge snobbery.