Quote:My employer offers demo vehicles for managers as a perk. That's the only way I would drive a European car. I would also take an SRT Challenger in that scenario. I probably give Ford too much credit for being the only domestic car maker to get through the recession without government help. TTheir styling is nice but I hate the idea of touch screens in cars.

 

You know I forgot about Subaru and Mitsubishi I'd sandwich them somewhere above Nissan. 

 

The European cars are just  such different machines, I tell people at my shop unless you're committed to treat them completely different then all your friends and neighbors treat their cars don't even bother. 

 

I get guys in with Mercedes that are 13 + years old all day and they don't get why their oil cost so much, their parts are so expensive and the labor is so much more to fix basic problems. 

 

The most frustrating is the guys that go buy these TDI's and want me to do a basic oil change and I have to explain to them I can't just put standard oil in their TDI. 

 

BMW ugh, those are just junk cars. I at least admit Mercedes are built to last they just cost a fortune to maintain and run. But BMW total garbage it's the equivalent of a Chrysler from Europe. 

 

Doesn't matter in 10 years it'll all be obsolete. You see the new automated Mercedes semi's coming down the pike? I'm convinced that's where it's all going automated vehicles are so much closer then people realize. Personally I'd never get in one, I've seen to many sensors fail to trust my life to an automated vehicle. 

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