Recently had a conversation at work , being a child in the late fifties you always saw cars broken down with bonnets up being "fixed " at the roadside , don't see many now, so yes more reliable now but I still have a soft spot for the old ones especially Zephyrs/Zodiacs
You see quite a lot of BMW / VAG cars on low loaders, though. I guess it's not worth opening the bonnet when one of those breaks, as it's normally not fixable without some obscure part, and it's normally being driven by someone who doesn't know one end of the engine from another. Or someone who has just discovered that run-flat tyres don't.
Ah yes, the average BMW owner...."but it's got tyre pressure sensors...doesn't the car inflate the tyres automatically?"
So... Is the omega reliable?
I'd say yes. Ignoring the appropriate cam and crank sensors for a minute, and possibly the hbv .... and leaking scuttle and cam covers causing missfires, 2.6 Mafs, TD auto boxes, central locking motors, rusty arches, wishbone bu....
...no its not reliable at all is it.
Apart from crank sensor fault on my cdx, I've never been let down by an omega. Oh, failed alternator x2. And the heated seat fault causing fuse 14(?) to blow and the car to refuse to start. ...apart from those.
Of course, the real difference with the omega is OOF.