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German Stereotypes Car Brand Slogans Redefined honest.
Wir leben Autos, the ultimate driving machine, Das Auto, Vorsprung durch Technik every German car manufacturer has one of these sexy slogans that show how they serious and dedicated are making large cars for you, the customer, and millions others like you who buy the exact same car.
Would it not be great if we could cut the BS and just take these big brands for what they really wouldn t it be great if a sentence can describe what all people really think about BMW or Porsche and It it can be done it should be done.
We live in the era of German industrial power Think about it, they command more respect now that Hitler's army could never during the war, 60 hp VW up to 630 hp S63 AMG over the car which Deutschland origins are benchmarks for the industry, mainly for the seriousness in which every detail is built But what's great about things and people serious is that it is very easy to make fun of them, which is exactly what i want to do while Audi looks the same.
Audi, the manufacturer of this car that has four rings that other car that is smaller and looks the same and large SUV soccer players like Seriously, even a seasoned veteran spotting car will have problems telling the new A3 sedan A4 and Audi knows.
Audi and Volkswagen are like sisters with totally different skills that complement It could be a very small three-cylinder engine while the other develops a January 8 turbo that they can share the problem is snobbish sister Audi takes normal cookies the VW sister actually dipped in caramel and sells as organic with a 50 marking is February 1 TFSI different than 1 2 TSI quattro really permanent permanent all, or is he simply mix the power to the rear wheels in case necessary, as 4Motion Hmmm BMW good to take risks in Bad interiors and BMW Sticking tradition is definitely an oddball in the automotive industry while Audi is all the same, BMW is very different, which is also a huge problem.
Series 1 to 5 GT, the X5 and especially the old series 6, all they've ever put into production was called ugly, each time for a different reason.
If there is one thing I like BMW, it is how they take risks Nobody notices that he's real shame, but the X5, X6, 1 Series and M3 have changed the world in a small way or another all the MINI brand and models, it is another example of thinking outside-the-box.
But my God, do they ever indoor sub-engineering Their obsession with hard plastic surfaces and imitation leather in search is the second Honda It would be nice if Mercedes and Audi didn t make perfect cabins with buttons are identically weighted and placed intuitively.
Another bad surprise is that BMW seems to have forgotten the pleasures of driving This is good for millions of new customers in China, but not for someone who's sampled an E46 or E60 if you know what I mean Mercedes We are more expensive than everyone a little something overzealous car reviews never tell you when they say Mercedes sportscars did better than BMW and Audi is that they're also more expensive than I'll give you an example, the BMW M6 and the SL 63 AMG have been rivals since day 1, however, the M6 begins to 124000 in Germany while the SL 63 is 160000 you can buy a different car premium for that actually, once you add options, Merc borders powerful supercar territory.
Yes, buy Mercedes cheap cars as well as the class you could say yes, the A 160 starts to 26000, but it comes with a Renault engine 90 hp and is more spartan you to not think of fog lights not alloy wheels, xenon not and no full leather interior element is the only premium badge Porsche Our SUVs are like Sportscars, honest everyone says that Audi should be more humble, because until recently, it was not your true premium brand Porsche really used to be a one-trick pony, an engineering company that transition in sportscars light now, they're about as mainstream as plasma TVs of the 42,000 cars they sold to the Americans last year, 18,000 were SUVs, weighing more than 2 tons of these, 30 were equipped with diesel engines and no, they are not boxer diesel engine as Subaru did.
Porsche never anything Their humble Panameras have powerful shoulder line, like the 911 and even their hybrid sportscars are the heritage somehow.
We aren t really raise the Cayenne and Panamera are considered sportscars 4 doors last year, Porsche recorded a nearly even distribution of sales between its four-door sports car and two doors 57 percent 43 percent, their words , not our Opel gift t we make money, we make Buicks.
Choose from Opel is so easy that we will not actually do they really had a bad reputation as the deficit division of GM, but the government had Motors decided to close its operations in Europe, where would they get their Buick Verano and Regal Why architecture, God forbid, the Chinese wouldn t have been able to buy a record number of them Buicks in 2013.
However, Opel hasn t made money in a very long time and I think I am not the one to tell any of their cars is really the pulse from the Corsa to the Antara, these guys are officials make about as much boring cars such as Peugeot and Fiat combined.
Spare Tires Why do most new cars are not made for travel.
I think we can all agree that cars have evolved exponentially in the last decade not matter what you talk about, whether it is security, speed or comfort, there is almost no direct link between a passenger car developed in the noughties and that's sold in 2017.
A brief look at the results of crash tests before and now, and how organizations such as EuroNCAP have gradually made their hardest to ACE protocols is a good example of how things have changed for the better.
The same could be said about how the cars have become increasingly fast in recent years Heck, a hatch hot wheel front wheels from 2017 is faster around the Nurburgring than a sport car RWD ten years ago Can you imagine that Volkswagen Golf GTI S Clubsport is faster on one of the most dema the world.
The automotive industry has been through a lot in the past two decades, and some views, it seems that the worst is yet to come.
Of course this is only a personal opinion, and it is certainly specific time In other words, it is my own personal view, and I reserve the right to think quite different in a year or more from From now.
Until that time comes, I do not stick to me carefully built on the notchback sedan, which means roughly that they are gradually moving towards extinction.
Before entering the answer to, but why part of this diatribe, let us first take a look at the history and definition of a classic notchback sedan, otherwise known as a sedan UK formerly European.
Mercedes-Benz model nomenclature is getting ridiculous.
It is not easy being in charge of a multinational company that probably has dozens of ministries and hundreds, even thousands of people who work in marketing I think it doesn t make it OK for people in charge of Mercedes-Benz brand to continue to change the model nomenclature whenever someone marketing a seemingly great new naming system.
This is especially true with regard to such a car manufacturer, otherwise known as the inventor of the modern automobile.
For those wondering what on earth I'm on about, please bear with me Many automakers have decided to completely revamp the way they name their models in recent years, and you are probably agree that most of these changes have been met with criticism first.
If Buys Opel Peugeot Citroen, it's all downhill for Volkswagen.
As a German car brand Opel has been lurking in the shadow of Volkswagen as long as I can remember, and I have a long enough memory.
Before getting an angry mail truckload, I'm not exactly a mnemonist full, but I strangest things sometimes remember things like that Astra has never outsold its nemesis arch, the Volkswagen Golf, no matter how difficult has tried similar things in 5 different generations might say on the Kadett regarding golf, or the Insignia Vectra Ascona on the Passat.
Despite the reluctance of Opel to advance their status at least equal Volkswagen s, let alone pass it, the last leg of GM Europe has created some of the strangest coolest cars that have come out of Germany in recent years.
Ford pulled a Prank on everyone with the 2017 GT.
If the 2017 Ford GT was a mystery novel instead of a supercar, it would probably be more interesting than The Hound of the Baskervilles Yes, I know, I'll probably be considered the number one GT nitpicker on the Internet after it, but it goes with the territory.
Ford has surprised her fans twice in one day during the last week of January, but it was not being directly responsible for two bombs Unfortunately, two surprises were a bit like a movie with a great start and an excruciatingly bad end well, not exactly, but close.
The first piece of new Ford that day in 2017 concerned only the long-awaited second Ford GT was how the pre-facelift 2017 Mustang received two stars in Euro NCAP, but that's another story for another day two years.
Plans could include electric Volkswagen Group Ducati.
The scandal Dieselgate sent a shock wave in the automobile industry and found that everyone was fair play in this game obviously Volkswagen is the manufacturer who has had the greatest success, and it seems that just they should pay dearly for their trickery.
With about billions to spend fixing Dieselgate consequences and repercussions to deal with the medium-term future, VW must withdraw to the positions they can more easily defend and recent statements made by CEO Matthias Muller Group indicate that the Germans are exploring new directions.
Namely, Volkswagen has big plans to experiment more with electric mobility and battery-powered electric vehicles BEV tone a bit reserved, if not very careful M. Muller explains a Wo.
It is not yet another electric motorcycle which debuts and hoping for the best, but on the fact that one of the largest motorcycle manufacturers in the world its intentions to officially add an e-bike to its range.
Of course, quite similar attempts were made in the industry, and HD is far from being the pioneer status, however, the bar and shield gets bonus points for boldness, because they will not introduce this motorcycle as a side dish like C evolution is BMW course, BMW is not ashamed with this scooter, but you get my point, I hope.
Instead of electrical machines looking more or less like the third cousin delayed a small village in the middle of nowhere, Harley-Davidson may be champion aliens electric steering, the two are Andrea always among the next best drivers on the grid, and they'd probably be welcome on any other team.
Ducati has not made statements that get us nowhere, leaving all the guessing game The only statements that mention both Dovizioso and Iannone are competitive drivers, and tea.
Yesterday's announcement means the Yamaha with the reigning separation Jorge Lorenzo was not a surprise because the avalanche of tips and paddock whispers turned everything into a public secret.
However, now that all things are said and done, I can not help thinking about how much of a move Lorenzo bet is, in fact, he took a radical decision, even before signing the contract Ducati, and the only way he can retain his aura is to win championships.
If anything, I'd say JL99 never felt that he was really at home at Yamaha despite having already spent more than eight seasons on Iwata Machine In fact, Yamaha Lorenzo was the only team that had been it intervened in MotoGP again, it seems like his three world titles in the premier class, multiple wins, podiums and poles.
Germany Car Brand Slogans Stereotyping Redefined honest, German brand, stereotypes, redefined.