Split from -NO 56K First real test drive of the ssc ultimate aero tt

[79TA]

Originally Posted by leblanc2.0 Design,quality... See the Jeremy Clarkson - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly DVD, he have the answer to understand my point,what i really mean. And its not the Anti-American point of JC.

I've seen it. You've almost made a specific point, but not quite. It's progress though.

On the topic of that program, he mistakes a V6 Mustang for one with a V8, compares a landrover to giant GM SUV's (instead of the jeeps that would have won handily), drag races an M5 against a SRT8, and dismissese the Z06 as being too harsh. He then concludes the Ford GT is the only good American car and the notes (overstates would be a more accurate way of putting it) the British influences on the car.

Design? I'll take a Sky redline or Solstice GXP over the BMW Z4 any day.

Reliability: My family and I have had much better luck with American cars than foreign ones

Quality: alot of the fancy bells and whistles on older European cars go bad and make for electronic nightmares. That's partially why my local salvage yard is stuffed full of dead BMW E30s.

[leblanc2.0]

Originally Posted by 79TA I've seen it. You've almost made a specific point, but not quite. It's progress though. On the topic of that program, he mistakes a V6 Mustang for one with a V8, compares a landrover to giant GM SUV's (instead of the jeeps that would have won handily), drag races an M5 against a SRT8, and dismissese the Z06 as being too harsh. He then concludes the Ford GT is the only good American car and the notes (overstates would be a more accurate way of putting it) the British influences on the car. Design? I'll take a Sky redline or Solstice GXP over the BMW Z4 any day. Reliability: My family and I have had much better luck with American cars than foreign ones Quality: alot of the fancy bells and whistles on older European cars go bad and make for electronic nightmares. That's partially why my local salvage yard is stuffed full of dead BMW E30s.

I like the Z4 much more .

Reliability and quality: I only had good examples,my cars never let me down.

But its true that to much electronics dont help.

[79TA]

I mill around my local salvage yard quite a bit. Even if I don't need anything in particular I enjoy checking out the cars. Many of the said BMW E30's have some pretty substantial mileage on them (usually 145k-230k) They're also reliable cars. This is just one example so the same cannot be assumed about all cars. However, this is not radically better (and often worse) than what I see on the Oldsmobiles of similar years (I take an interest in them as I own one.) That being said, I think there is no good reason to make any claims about European cars having such obviously superior build quality or reliability.