German car manufactures have been coasting on their reputation for excellence for about 10 years now. It took the Japanese invasion to get US makers to wake up. I don't see that happening in Europe.
At 07:47 AM 3/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Franklin Stregevsky" Subject: Re: "ist D" marketing
> > P�l wrote: > > "When it comes to cars theres no dispute that Europe is best when to comes > to technology. For reliability, nothing beats the japanese." > > This belief was stated in about 1980 by a Porsche vice president, who > remarked: "The Japanese build cars better, but the Germans build better > cars."
My BMW 530i would disagree that the Germans build better cars. Second worst car I ever bought, the worst being a Pontiac.
William Robb
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