MacGuffin
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Health warning: The following text contains traces of irony, which can have unexpected results on your mental stability, if you take them too serious!
That discussion about the subchallenged engine gives me a whole new idea.
As certain people repeatedly pointed out in their unique manner, German cars (especially the expensive ones!), seem to be more susceptible to faults in the USA, than here in Germany, while for example Jaguars last longer over there and are less faulty in, say, Texas, while they break in pieces over here in Bavaria all the time.
Assuming that these observations are based on facts and not only personal assumptions which result from a biased point of view, there are only three possible explanations:
1. It's the different climate
2. Cars built for the USA are just second-rate quality
3. Drivers treat the cars differently
Now, it can't be the climate, because all car makers thoroughly test their new cars in all climate zones, from Death Valley to the Polar Circle, with special emphasis on the USA, because that is where they make the biggest part of their sales.
And I also refuse to believe that they have two different production lines in Stuttgart: One for Europe, where they make the good ones, and one for the USA, where they make the bad ones.
So according to what was written above, it must be the fact that we are driving them differently here. Because we are allowed to drive them FAST - and that obviously makes all the difference.
That has to be the solution
And that explains why a Porsche breaks down when constantly doing only 65 mp/h, while a Jaguar doesn't. Because for the Jag doing 65 mp/h is its purpose. That's why the Jaguars here always break down (they're simply driven too fast), while Porsches don't, because they are being treated correctly - like greyhounds which can't be hold in kennels all the time but must run around.
There you see: Mystery solved :lol:
That discussion about the subchallenged engine gives me a whole new idea.
As certain people repeatedly pointed out in their unique manner, German cars (especially the expensive ones!), seem to be more susceptible to faults in the USA, than here in Germany, while for example Jaguars last longer over there and are less faulty in, say, Texas, while they break in pieces over here in Bavaria all the time.
Assuming that these observations are based on facts and not only personal assumptions which result from a biased point of view, there are only three possible explanations:
1. It's the different climate
2. Cars built for the USA are just second-rate quality
3. Drivers treat the cars differently
Now, it can't be the climate, because all car makers thoroughly test their new cars in all climate zones, from Death Valley to the Polar Circle, with special emphasis on the USA, because that is where they make the biggest part of their sales.
And I also refuse to believe that they have two different production lines in Stuttgart: One for Europe, where they make the good ones, and one for the USA, where they make the bad ones.
So according to what was written above, it must be the fact that we are driving them differently here. Because we are allowed to drive them FAST - and that obviously makes all the difference.
That has to be the solution
And that explains why a Porsche breaks down when constantly doing only 65 mp/h, while a Jaguar doesn't. Because for the Jag doing 65 mp/h is its purpose. That's why the Jaguars here always break down (they're simply driven too fast), while Porsches don't, because they are being treated correctly - like greyhounds which can't be hold in kennels all the time but must run around.
There you see: Mystery solved :lol: