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Les Ismore said:
Fun German engineering facts:

In 2004, Germany was the market leader in twenty-one out of thirty-one branches of the entire world’s engineering industry! At the time it represented a quarter of the entire world market.

Upon conducting surveys, it was found that engineers in Germany don’t just work in research and development. This area is a good place to enter, but many engineers work in production and even management.

Germany has often been dubbed a land of thinkers. This is true within the German engineering field, too. Many accomplishments can be traced to individuals who originated from here. And the intellectual accomplishments of Germans have helped to shape the world.




Not so fun German engineering facts:

Leading brands such as Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz all fared worse in WHICH? magazine's annual reliability survey than in recent times.

Less prestigious marques including the US' Ford performed better than in the past, overtaking their German rivals.

Overall, Japanese cars were found to be the most reliable in the survey of 80,000 readers, comparing 138 different models.


Poor

Mercedes-Benz slipped two categories, from best to average, in reliability, according to the survey.


No major German marques has escaped the steady decline we have noticed in recent years Which magazine spokesperson
BMW trod water in the survey, achieving a disappointing average reliability rating for the fourth consecutive year.

However, Which? readers expressed greater dissatisfaction with Volkswagen cars.

The carmaker, who manufactures leading models such as the Golf and Polo, was downgraded by Which? readers to the poor reliability category.
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Maybe they decided to engineer unreliable cars because there's more money in maintenance and replacement parts.
 
Dre25 said:
Maybe they decided to engineer unreliable cars because there's more money in maintenance and replacement parts.
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...indeed, it seems some manufacturers' cars perform magnificently during the 3-4 year "service-free" period, and then, promptly fall apart once the free service period ends...and because the engines/drive-trains are geared to optimum performance, the resulting stress on the parts contributes to shorter life spans...this somewhat explains the trend to lease (vs purchase) high performance luxury brands...
 
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