Originally Posted by
robotkiller
I do get what the OP is saying. If you are buying a high end Italian bike, you want something that comes from that tradition. Not something that was popped out of the Giant/Pacific/Whatever megafactory. Similarly, I would favor high end Japanese manufacturers that come from a tradition of racing and/or building excellence.
Trust me, getting popped out of an Italian megafactory feels about the same as from an Asian megafactory.
Originally Posted by
robotkiller
There is something impersonal about outsourcing, where the instrument of manufacture is separate from the source of the design.
Impersonal? The inventor is different from the producer? Are you criticizing the industrial revolution?