On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:07:48 -0600, Swingman wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
Swingman wrote:

Jules wrote:

They'll build what they're paid to build, no more and no less. There are
talented folk there, same as anywhere else
They are excellent copy cats, but there is NOTHING like European
engineering for built-in quality, from handsaws and screwdrivers, to
spaceships.

The Europeans have yet to make a reliable car.

WHAT??? LOL ... surely you jest??

Over 60 years ago one of the most reliable and efficient automobiles
known to mankind, and to this day the best selling car in history, hit
the ground running ... the "Volkswagen".

Sheessh, it's sad, this total failure of the educational system and the
resultant ignorance!


Reliable????????????
To a point.
But I worked a LOT on the few that were running around my home town in
the late 60s and early 70s. And for years after too.

I drove a 1949 Beetle - it didn't have enough power to hurt itself -
or even get out of it's own way - and it DID last a long time, with
regular and periodic infusions of sweat, cursing, and parts.

We had TWO 1500 squarebacks die on us in one week-long holiday and we
never did get to our destination.