An owner's page for a large German saloon of the late nineteen-eighties is usually about one thing: keeping a complicated luxury car alive long after it stopped being expensive. This is the car section of such a site, and its structure says as much as its text — the present car and the one before it, shown together, with the frank note that the earlier one left for reasons outside the owner's control.
What makes these cars a hobby rather than mere transport is the combination of a smooth large engine, a heavy body full of electrics, and running costs that fall much faster than the engineering does. Owners therefore trade in knowledge: which control modules fail, where the wiring chafes, how the cooling system must be maintained before it takes the cylinder head with it, and what a tuned version — a factory car reworked by a specialist to a higher output — actually gains and gives up in reliability.
The page also carries the marks of its era: a visitor counter, a note of the date it was last updated, and a small frame of links to the owner's other cars. It is kept as it was published on this domain; contact details and the state of the collection are historical.