Quite frequently, y colleagues at work ask me "why do you drive a British car?". They can't understand it much, because they are so biassed towards the 'reliable' German quality. Yes, a Jaguar will decide, that it wants to leak all of it's oil at once. Yes, it will not want to start one morning but the same evening will as if nothing was wrong. Bulbs will turn off and light up again once hit with your flat palm. But I call that character. How many brands or better countries with car manufacturering can say, that their cars have emotions?

If I wanted a machine with no personality, I'd buy German. If I wanted an uncultivated tractor with old but reliable technology, I'd buy American. If I wanted a high tech gubbin filled reliable car, I'd buy Japanese. And if I want to be in a cocoon of safety, I'd buy Swedish. But all of that has less emotions... The stiff upper lip counts for Gentlemen, not cars! And my cars have personalities.

Walter Röhrl (famous rallye driver) once said: Cars aren't like women. Cars need love.

 

A bit of generalization and the false categorical statement?


1. In the late 70's a workmate bought a new Volvo wagon. The insistence of his lovely Swede wife. Plaqued with cold start issues. Oh, a similar Bosch Jetronic FI system as found on Jaguars and Mercedes.


2. My daughter has a 2001 VW Passat four wheel drive wagon. Her atty gal pal calls it her space ship. Wow, the pipes through the bulkhead from the engine to the heater matrix bust. Yikes, plastic disintegration. Fix, change out the heater matrix. Oh oh, dismantle the dash to access. At local hourly, a grand plus parts.


3. VW has it's own coolant blend. The purple stuff, not yellow or green like most others. Oh, lot more bucks as well.


4. Heater matrix in my 85 Ford F150 4x4. Leaked like crazy. New unit 60 bucks.
Slow me got it in in a couple of hours!!. A pro would've beat that time all to pieces.


5. I am still puzzled over the logic in the ignition circuit of my XJ wuzza six???


Carl