GazChap wrote:
Cavey wrote:
I am a sucker for German design, engineering and build quality.
While I too love my BMWs, Jap engineering and build quality is streets ahead of anything the Germans have ever offered IMO.
Bikes aside, Jap stuff leaves me utterly cold. It's all very "worthy" and I don't doubt the cars run forever (umpteen old Avensis taxis tell their own story - but then again, that's all they're good for), but, man alive, it's BORING and (IMO) usually fugly too, to my eyes.
Yeah I know, Sccoobies, GT-R blah blah but these don't do it for me either, nor anyone else much by all accounts. How many new Scoobies do you see now, do they even still make em anymore?
I'll probably be really into them in 20+ years from now lol.
EDIT: That said, I do love the new MX-5 though, but that's pretty much just a very well made Lotus Elan copy... as Clarkson said a few years back, when the Japanese try to come up with their
own stuff, we end up with the Yaris Verso, which looks like "a snake that's swallowed a wardrobe".
Germany, by stark contrast, has given us many wonderful, iconic cars and designs, not least Porsche, and they're not exactly thrown together. So, I'm sticking with them for now, ta.