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Originally Posted by Cadenza

Nothing is fair if you throw in "service, resale and overall reliability". Especially on reliability, the Germans are really lagging regardless of brand.

I met 2 Bosch engineers who worked as consultants in Japan admit that the Germans will probably NEVER match the Japanese on quality control in mass production. A lot of it is cultural, social and legal. For example, in Japan failure and not meeting expectation is personal shame and/or lack of honor. Another example is regular inspection of cars 3-4 years or older is law. The inspection is paid by the owner but the information collected is passed to the manufacturer, who uses it to improve the manufacturing quality.

I'm just saying: Compare apples to apples.