Best country in the world?

[Aaron]

[Spider]

[Aaron]

Also, if Christmas in Rothenburg doesn't make you just turn inside out with joy then ya'll can Fick dich ins Knie, du Arschlochs

[Spider]

USA
Germany
Australia
Canada
UK

[broken robot]

[Winchester]

[Spider]

I've had remarkably bad luck with German cars. Owned one German motorcycle...and its actually pretty good. So far.

VW though....agreed. Not good.

[Aaron]

But this isn't news... VW has been a special kind of horrible for decades... a complete departure from the rest of the German tech paradigm

[Spider]

I'm talking about BMW. I had massively expensive cooling issues and even driveline vibrations leading to a differential failure. One of my partners had an SLK with a broken hard top stuck halfway up, which made the car undriveable...and stuck in the rain with a tarp over it until the wrecker could get there. My grandfather has a E320 CDI that eats batteries at $600 each and shifts like a 1988 Buick. The transaxle is going to be...thousands. Very plural about the thousands.

"German engineering" as a car selling slogan is a classic example of needless overdesign and resultant unreliability.

I stick with Infiniti these days. Almost as good as a Honda.

[Winchester]