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-SpankBankTank- t1_jd1j8bp wrote

Reply to comment by physics515 in Hailo bins: 40 years old (left) and 1 month old (right) by xKobito

Dude, you guys manufacture the ever-loving shit out of things! But then there’s the BMW as of a few years ago. What’s going on?!

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physics515 t1_jd1nwge wrote

Eh, I'm an American. I just work for a German company.

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Seaborn63 t1_jd2iu67 wrote

BMW North American headquarters are in my hometown. Some of the new stuff looks like it was designed by people from there (meaning people there have no taste in cars or design)

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MasterChicken52 t1_jd87a41 wrote

I’m reminded of that quote from HOT SHOTS!: “American planes will always be superior as long as there are wonderful men like you in the cockpit. And German parts.”

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Worlds_Dumbest_Nerd t1_jd5g7k4 wrote

>As of a few years ago

Pretty sure BMW has always been like that.

Now 1990's Benz's... that's that good shit

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-SpankBankTank- t1_jd82fnj wrote

A few minutes after I wrote that, I was out on the road and saw an amazing +/-1990 318i E30. Man, THAT was a car.

Those SLs from the 90s are awesome too!

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Worlds_Dumbest_Nerd t1_jd8o203 wrote

I mean, don't get me wrong, I like bimmers, I just don't like working on them. Benz's from the 90's were just built immaculately and german-car-electrical-gremlins aside were impossible to kill.

I'm just traumatized from helping friends work on E36 m3's when I was in high school/college.

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lordgeese t1_jdth47h wrote

Ugh that's a lie, late 80-90s Benz will need a complete rewiring. They used a biodegradable coating for all wires, the coating degraded faster in cold and hot markets too. Catastrophic failure in 20-30 years is normal.

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