Germany tells her Euro partners..............F*ck off & prepare for the 4TH Reich!

[Mega]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...ets-alone.html

Strange "new models" of "BMW 5 series" could be heard rubbleing though the streets ready to a Blitz.....er "Test drive tour".

Mike

[don]

Re: Germany tells her Euro partners..............F*ck off & prepare for the 4TH Reich!

Mike's been listening to Max!

[LargoWinch]

Re: Germany tells her Euro partners..............F*ck off & prepare for the 4TH Reich!

Mike's been listening to Max!

Mike's been drinking Spitfire.

[GRG55]

Re: Germany tells her Euro partners..............F*ck off & prepare for the 4TH Reich!

Mike's been drinking Spitfire.

I think Mike's been DRIVING a Spitfire...


One of the last remaining British Leyland Triumph Spitfires that has not yet rusted away

...and seems to be suffering from BMW-envy

[Starving Steve]

Re: Germany tells her Euro partners..............F*ck off & prepare for the 4TH Reich!

German cars do not impress me. The Volkswagens that I owned needed endless servicing, and repairs came every 6000 miles, or even more frequent than that.

A good car is a car that never needs servicing and never requires repairs. A good car runs forever, trouble-free, and it does not depreciate like ice-cream.

So far, after 110,000 miles of driving my Toyota, I have spent $19 on new windshield-wipers (to replace the rubber), $100 on a new battery, and I have replaced one set of tires.... That is a good car. I expect at least another 90,000 miles of trouble-free driving out of my old Toyota.

When I owned VWs, I had to learn to walk or ride the city-bus. In Winnipeg, during the winter-half of the year, that was not fun.

And the attitude of the VW dealer network was memorable--- like they were doing me a favour to service and repair the car.

And the engineering in the old VW bug was a joke. If you wanted to de-frost the windows, you had to chip the ice off with an ice-scraper while you drove. And if you wanted heat, you had to install a gas-heater which destroyed any good mileage that you got from gasoline. The entire car was a joke!

And then at trade-in time, there was no trade-value to the bug. (Another joke!)

VW buses needed a new engine every 18,000 miles. It was called, "an engine-transplant". This was part of "normal" maintenance on VW buses. An engine-transplant would cost around $1000 during the 1970s, and this was a tidy-sum of money, especially back then.

[GRG55]

Re: Germany tells her Euro partners..............F*ck off & prepare for the 4TH Reich!

...A good car is a car that never needs servicing and never requires repairs. A good car runs forever, trouble-free, and it does not depreciate like ice-cream.

So far, after 110,000 miles of driving my Toyota, I have spent $19 on new windshield-wipers (to replace the rubber), $100 on a new battery, and I have replaced one set of tires.... That is a good car. I expect at least another 90,000 miles of trouble-free driving out of my old Toyota.

...

Steve: I think your Toyota probably deserves an oil change by now. I realize that goes against your "NO SERVICING" policy...and you might also want to consider changing out the fuel filter and at least cleaning the air filter [assuming the budget can't quite make the scratch to spring for a new one].

[Seriously now, if you are driving that thing around the west coast region you can get a lot more than 200,000 km out of it. My wife ran her first generation Camry 365,000 km before we sold it to a young couple who took it to their mechanic who told them it was the best car they had brought to him for a pre-purchase check. I maintained it superbly including changing out the transaxle fluid and engine coolant every 150,000 km - something I do with all my vehicles]

[Starving Steve]

Re: Germany tells her Euro partners..............F*ck off & prepare for the 4TH Reich!

I deal in miles: 5,280 feet equals one-mile. I try to get 200,000 trouble-free miles out of a car, about 20 years of driving.

One mile = 1.613 kilometres. 200,000 miles = 322,600 km.

Yes, I do change the oil, about every 12,000 miles or so. That is not a big expense.

[Chris Coles]

Re: Germany tells her Euro partners..............F*ck off & prepare for the 4TH Reich!

Best car I ever bought was a ten yr old Nissan Bluebird for £200 at auction with a mere 54,000 miles on the clock that served me well for another five years at minimal cost. Starving Steve is correct, the Japanese know how to build good cars.