[s-cars] Allroad Experiences Anyone?

[Calvin & Diana Craig]

Well my wife's shoulder is starting to act up a good bit and we need to
think about getting an awful-matic, so we are thinking of replacing the '89
200 wagon with another wagon.  One of the options is the Allroad.  I have 3
main questions:

1. Has anyone had any experiences with reliability, good or bad?
2. Has anybody painted those insidious pieces of ABS plastic to match the
body color and did it work OK, what was involved, etc.
3. I know the autos now come with a Sport-Mode shifting algorithm; the 2001
we drove did not have it, what year did those first appear?

Thanks!

--Calvin

P.S. The good news is I will now have our '92 S-4 as my commuter vehicle
rather than the '89 :)