Google| Subject | Ideological differences between big 3 german, americans and jap trash |
| From | Brake Dive, Acceleration Squat, Body Roll Works LLC |
| Date | 02/20/2014 11:51 (02/20/2014 13:51) |
| Message-ID | <le4moe$qeo$1@dont-email.me> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | Lloyd E Parsons |
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That's why I got an audi. Push comes to shove you can service it at a local VW dealer which are way more plentiful than audi dealers (I have 1 audi dealer in a city of 2 million and another one is just opening up vs something like 7 vw dealers).Lloyd E ParsonsNashtonDavid Fritzinger
What is wrong with Mac users? Are you oblivious to the term "value for your money?"
You really are quite the hypocrite, aren't you? Especially since you apparently have no idea of BMW, Audi, or VW prices in the US.
For me, the BMW and Audi would be a hard sell even if I wanted them as sales and service are not very close by at all. For VW as of a couple of weeks ago, we now have a local dealer.
With Audi you get (as expected) the cabin noise levels you'd expect from an american car (something as expected you've found lacking in VW). With audi you do not get the idiotic plush suspension setup that turns the car into an (affordable) commodity. With bmw you have zero fallback options for service as mini dealerships are hardly all over the land of the free. (And with VW you get prodigious wind noise in the cabin at freeway speed howling over the diesel chatter).
Of course now that you've skipped all 3 options you get cheap service, but get zero driving enjoyment that comes bundled with just about any american car south or viper and vette (and $50k or so that vette starts at in the states)
An american car is a valid choice though as it keeps you from developing a potentially unhealthy attachment to the machine. So if you see something suspicious in the service cost you dump it and replace it with another commodity. It's like a sub $1k PC laptop: ugly as hell, but useable to some degree.
American car prevents you from ending up wtih something as idiotic as a pimped out $50k sillicon valley civic (still ain't porsche after $30k was dumped into tuning, but it sure looks like shit with a fart can exhaust and that bulldozer skirting). Oh, lest we forget that it's typically not a ticket magnet. Imagine collecting tons of tickets in something like taurus or dodge caravan?
That's my take on it, regardless of the value you get what you paid for and south of $30-35k in the US you typically get something very lame and mundane. Maybe I'll graduate to your mode of thinking in 20-30 years but I hope I won't.
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