Originally Posted by
Chombi
Not really,.......Biggest piece of junk I ever bought in my life was my 1997 Passat GLX VR6....
It was reliable for exactly 276 miles.... then the first big thing broke.....ECU, fried, left me stranded on the freeway at rush hour traffic....which gives anyone the idea on how the next 70K miles went.....
Sorry any VW fans out there, the truth just have to be told about German engineering....
Only German engineered thing I own and trust enough these days is my Braun shaver.... but dang, the head still manages to snag my mustache if I'm not careful....Owwie!!
I've got over 307,000 miles on my 1991 Mercedes Benz 560SEL.
Granted, it's not perfect. The self-leveling hydraulic rear suspension is dead, the front passenger side window needs manual assistance to go all the way up, the sun roof has decided it doesn't care to open anymore, a speed hump ate holes in the spare wheel well of the trunk earlier this year, and it has hail dents all over, but at least the A/C still works.
Thing to remember is that German engineering is mostly great, but Germans are still human beings capable of making mistakes.
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