Are you out of your mind, what ever happened to supporting local industry??? Mercs are {bleep} mobiles, BMW (however nice they may be) are for stuck up snobs and Honda's...lets not even go there. As for Porche and Ferrari, they are a tad out of my price range, I don't even entertain the idea of ever owning one...
Look, if the local industry would produce cars THAT I WANT, I would buy.
Mercs are luxury and fun and the best looking if they're an E-Class. The E-Class is dead sexy to look at!
BMW's are also very sexy to look at!

And if owning one (of those nice sexy 318i's ) would make a person a 'stuck up snob' then I'm sure they will prefer to be a 'stuck up snob' and keep the car. (What's wrong with being a 'snob' anyway?)
Honda? My parents both owned Honda's! The Honda is a very nice looking car. Just so long as it's not too old, all honda's look good - even the Civic
Why don't you like Honda?
And Ferrari and Porche are a little out of my price range, also. However, they are both nice cars to look at. I esspecialy like the porche 911 - whereas years ago I didn't like Porche.
The only Porche I don't like the look of are the 'people van' type ones (can't remember the name of them) like the one that the people up the street from me have. They look like crap. (But then, as far as far as the looks of vans go, they're not SO bad)
:-)