Again,

IMHO, the 123 offers a feeling of confidence on the highway, or even a tight, winding, narrow, paved farm road. But, to imply that this is a great handling car just blows me completely away. This is NOT a sports car, it's a well designed sedan!

Of cars in it's class, a front engine, rear wheel drive grocery getting sedan, sure it out handles a seventies Crown Vic, or Caprice, maybe the same size car of the period would be a Fairmont or Malibu, but what about an equivalent BMW? Comparing to a Jetta is totally an oranges to apples comparison, the Jetta is front wheel drive for goodness sakes.

Again, I'm not bashing the 123, it excels in so many categories, the most important to me being it's long, reliable life, but get real, this is not a GREAT handling car, even for it's time period.

Another thing, I sure hope that I misunderstood one of the posts in this thread. One of them said, I think, that the 123 oversteers, PLEASE......

I bought my first 123 car in late '77, I drove a number of other cars that belonged to various friends as well as my own toys of the period, and even for it's time it was not a sports car. It was a great car to drive in which you felt confident driving.

IMHO,