iMacfan said:
No offence intended and I'm definitely not anti-American, just looking at the powerbook I'm typing this on shows how an American company can produce a product that is both superbly reliable and well designed.
David
The secret may be offshoring! you're powerbook is made in Taiwan
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And cars, oh my god! I had nearly the same problems with an Audi TT Roadster I had with Fiat Barchetas before.
Ok, a bit different. The Audi gearbox exploded at 80 km/h and I stood at the worst possible spot on a road with heavy traffic in the dark while I was able to drive the barchetta with a stuck gear lever. Then I had electronics problems without an end. On a sunny August day the Audi decided that it's to slippery to drive and blinked its ABS and ESP lights instead of getting me from that damn ... Railroad track while I heard the train comming. In winter the ABS turned itself off as soon as it started to rain, usualy at speeds exceeding 60 mph and without any warning.
On the Barchetta ABS had some trouble when the car was cold but started to work as soon as the engine gained some temperature.
Oh, I drove some 29,000 km in three years with the Audi TT and it needed maintanance only every 3,000 km. With two Barchettas I drove 150,000 km in five years and except changing the brakes and ABS from Bosch to Lockheed in the first one and the stuck gear lever on the second they haven't seen a workshop out of planned maintenance.
Did I mention Audis burglar protection? It honked every night when temperatures reached a critical level. In the end I had the workshop disabling the burglar protection as my neighbours waited outside with pitchforks and torchlights
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So I had a lot of fun not driving a 45,000 Euro car. And when I drove it, I never tested its claimed top speed of 237 km/h. To risky when you can't rely on your brakes, gearbox or rearaxle.
The Mini can't be worse
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