That guy is hilarious-looking... thanks for the link, I'll read it. Oh, and sorry I misspelled your name Austere.
Do yourself a favor and go here
link and watch "Dragon" "Guitar" and "Techno" Those always cheer me up.
What's wrong with that? It's worked fine on commercial jets for years, and they have even higher safety requirements than cars. There is the issue of feedback, but your average family car doesn't have much to begin with.
The only issue I see with it, is it makes it even harder for owners to fix their own vehicles. Hell in the US with DMCA and the like, it would make it
Illegal to do so. I would make some references to freedom about America vs Saudi, but I don't know enough about that part of the world to avoid sounding like anymore of a moron than I already do.
Speak for yourself. Not every enthusiast thinks Bangle's designs are ugly (I quite like the Z4, 1 and 5 series, myself), and from what I gather, the cars themselves are still excellent to drive.
I was speaking for the American market. We don't get he 1 series. And well few enthusiasts really seem to like BMW's new designs. Perhaps I'm just speaking for the majority.
I agree that this is really stupid, but apart from that, whats with all your Germany hating lately?
Quality is on the rise again for almost all german brands and to be honest its not as bad as people here always make it out to be (My whole family drives German cars (except me
) and they never ever got any problems apart from small stuff here and there.
Thats good to hear about quality. As far as the German hate goes, I've just been burned by BMW really bad. I love the look of many German cars, and I love the way (older, no experience with e46 or newer) BMW's 3's drive, but they just can't seem to tolerate any kind of a "beating."
The big thing with German cars (BMW specifically) is it always seems to be the small things that break, and destroy the big expensive things in a chain reaction. Example is my friends 318. Due to the Germans inability to tighten a bolt down properly (and use any kind of thread lock) the bolts in the oil pan and oil pick-up (the more likely ones to do so) back themselves out. If the ones in the pick-up come out, the gasket fails between the pick-up and the pump, no oil can be sucked up and therefor no pressure to your bearings, and now you have a spun bearing and are stuck on the side of the road.
There are at least 4 bolts that can fall out and into the oil pan, and you'd never notice, those bolts can get into the pickup and thanks to the low mounting of the engine, the pan can get hit by something in the road and flex. This flexing causes the bolt to be pushed through the pick-ups filter and then sucked into the oil pump. I know this is true, because it's what happened to my brothers 318is.
On the flip side, I've heard from plenty of people with the older, quality, Mercedes' that keeping up with maintenance (@ about $1000 a year on average) and they are great long lasting cars, and judging by the number of old 190e's I've seen on the road through my life I don't doubt that one bit.
