When the West can't keep up with Eastern tech - and when NSA/MI6 wants you to buy a US controlled phone
But the islamofascist Saudi dictator family seems to be of no concern to the US, UK, and BBC.
And whereas US and its shrinking old bulldog England keep war mongering and barking (BBC) China is doing the right thing, i.e. spreading modern non-militaristic tech all over the world.
Klevius wrote:
Klevius tech tutorial for Theresa May & her advisor(s) - and for BBC
Burning Vauxhalls is just the hot tip of a c/old European/US quality
problem hidden under the surface of prejudice and crypto-racism.
Klevius has since the 1990s pointed out the remarkable difference in TV
and car fires between Japan and Europe. Re. cars please read the list
further down presenting insurance data over car fires per brand. And
when it came to TV's the difference between German/Dutch TVs and
Japanese brands was in the order of tenfold.
EU was created to "protect" EU against import of Japanese high tech and quality - far beyond what Europe/US could produce.
These two Japanese cars topped the
list of the best cars money could buy 25 years ago. Lexus LS400 was buy
far the most silent, refined and reliable luxury car of its time. And
Honda's NSX was by far the most refined and reliable super sports car of
its time - adding for the first time ever in sports car history, the
ability to also function as a "normal" car. And it was much cheaper than
Ferrari - yet Ferrari owners usually needed to buy three Ferraris: One
to drive, one in spare when they got the inevitable quality problems/car
fires etc, and one under expensive service.
EU was created with the 1992 Maastricht Treaty at a time US-Japanese
trade war, when the Japanese superior production quality became obvious
for even the most conservative buyers. And instead of cooperation EU
offered protectionism which led to poorer quality and less
environmentally friendly products for the consumers. Klevius thinks part
of the eagerness to stop Japanese products was also purely based on
racism. Europe has a long tradition of "mongol" hate. However, Klevius
proposed that the Nordic countries, instead of joining EU, could have
continued their long Nordic cooperation,but also included Japan, which
lacked the resources the Nordic countries possessed. Finland had already
started such cooperation (compare Nokia etc). This was at a time when
Japan (70%) and Sweden (most of the rest) dominated the world's
industrial robot production.
Godless, i.e. Atheist Japan has been in the technological lead for more than a century
(starting with Japan's crushing of the Russian navy). Next in line is
an other godless, i.e. Atheist country, China. See the pattern?
If you gather all possible car (or other technical gadgets) quality
lists from the last half a century, you will face an overwhelming
Japanese dominance.
According to Swedish Folksam's insurance statistics on car fires only
one out of the 55 most dangerous cars in Sweden was Japanese, whereas 34
out of the 47 least dangerous cars were Japanese (with Toyota and Honda
in top).
China is the next* Japan - only ten times bigger and growing five times
faster. Yet Theresa May feels more comfortable with islamofascist*
countries who haven't produced anything except havoc, misery and
suffering.
* Countries where basic Human Rights
are denied and where it's "blasphemic" to even question or worse still,
criticize, the muslim god Allah.
Klevius wrote:
How come that the best tech in the world comes from a non-muslim and non-Christian, Atheist people?
Who moron bought Steinway?
And why do many churches, concert halls etc keep buying inferior grands?
Klevius has the answer - keep reading!
BBC's confused "piano expert" Chris Hopkins, didn't even mention the
best brand when he named his favorite piano makers. Instead Chris
Hopkins blabbed about Steinway and their top model D. And here comes the
truly revealing part. When asked to motivate his opinion Chris Hopkins
had nothing logical to say but instead admitted that the Steinway D's
quality differed widely between individual pianos. But this devastating
fact he then tried to turn positive in the old tiresome babbling about
"hand made"* and "individuals", when the fact is that Steinway cannot
produce the same quality pianos as Yamaha because of the same reason
Ferrari, Porsche etc cannot produce the same quality as Lexus etc
Japanese high tech cars.
* Compare extremely over-prized (part
of the selling trick) handmade European watches - usually driven by some
already outdated Japanese tech.
Kevin Higgins (about Yamaha CFX): I was pleasantly surprised by the warm
round tone of each note. It was the best piano I have ever played. The
action was easy and the keyboard had a nice textured feel that gave me
confidence and security in my play. Much easier to play than the
Steinway D. More clarity on the bottom end. This piano achieves real
depth but with a better action. It's amazing.
Klevius: Not only that. Yamaha's superior and even production quality guarantees that you really get what you want.
Yamaha talked to hundreds of the world’s most accomplished pianists,
including those that did not play Yamaha pianos, and they asked them all
what it was they most wanted to see in a concert instrument, and also
what they hoped not to see.
Klevius comment: If they'd asked the buyers instead they'd likely got
the answer that they hoped not to see the Yamaha brand name on the
piano. Btw, have you noticed how TV cameras tend to be allergic to the
Yamaha brand name while never missing an opportunity to show the
Steinway brand name. Crypto-racism?!
The V10 engine in Lexus LFA is made by Yamaha.
Never buy a camera with a Zeiss lens
I got a cheap Sony bridge camera more than four years ago. I've taken
thousands and thousands of pics and I've had it out almost every day in a
variety of wet, sandy, dirty, hot and cold environments loose in the
car or in some suspicious bags etc without any other protection. It has
never failed (the only Japanese camera that has failed for me was a
Panasonic with a Zeiss lens - which very soon lacked working both
zooming and focusing while the rest of the camera works perfectly). I'm
sure I'm not alone. Just check quality lists etc.
This photo was taken hand-held with my soon five year old cheap Sony HX1 recently.
No Audis at the top- ever
* Although Mercedes usually tops the
European brands, the particular list below is misleading because
Mercedes is usually much lower down and Honda higher up.
It's not just Lexus - it's Japanese world leading quality
Ignorant people don't realize that Japanese quality is older than
Germany is as a nation. The pre-history of Japanese quality goes deep
into Shinto tradition. No dude, Shinto isn't a stupid "monotheist
religion"!
There's a multitude of quality surveys out there from the last half of a
century which could vary considerably due to methods etc. However, when
summed up the Japanese stand out as overwhelmingly superior. And
despite an equally long period of besserwissers telling us it won't last
- it still lasts.
Just one example from a safety aspect:
Risk of car fires recorded by Sweden's biggest insurance company Folksam
Japanese brands on average face a far less risk of bursting into flames,
than do European cars (see note above)! Especially Volvo and French
cars, but also all the German brands, are much often involved in
accidental or even spontaneous car fire. Although this is well in line
with previous studies on TV-fires, which found that European brands were
involved up to 50 times more often than similar Japanese and Korean
brands, Volvo and others continue to talk safety! When a Swedish mother
left her child for day care, she found her new Volvo X90 in spontanenous
flames after having left it for a few minutes. Luckily she took her
older child with her inside the day care center! These kinds of stories
are very common. So next time you buy a car you may reconsider the
safety issue, especially the one that concerns the real life situation
where you want to use your car.
The most dangerous brands? BMW, VW & Peugeot plus, of course, perhaps the worst, Volvo
which, apart from burning very easily, has much more than the average of safety problems related to poor build quality.
According to Swedish Folksam's insurance statistics on car fires only
one out of the 55 most dangerous cars in Sweden was Japanese, whereas 34
out of the 47 least dangerous cars were Japanese (with Toyota and Honda
in top).
Klevius wrote:
This fact should be thought of when considering the scale of "Hitler's revenge on the afterworld".
VW/Audi hasn't only cheated on diesel cars. Moreover, even if Japanese
car makers should have done exactly the same, the irrefutable fact
remains that they should have caused less harm in every aspect due to
better production quality. If, on the other hand they haven't cheated,
then the gap is even bigger.
Will the muslimification of Germany improve German "quality"? Klevius thinks not.
EU was shaped as a protection zone against Japanese high quality products.
The Germans have never (on this side of WW2) been even close to Japanese
top quality. Even Porsche admitted it already back in the 1990s. And
among German car makers VW is probably the worst, and in the VW family
Audi is probably worst of them all because Audi is nothing else than
tuned VW's, i.e. magnifying an already existing problem.
"Tuned" price tags and brand names made in Germany has been the
surrogate for lack of quality (although, to be fair, German brands have
at least outperformed French brands).
Klevius remembers when German "quality brands" like Blaupunkt etc. in
the 1980's bought old Japanese video's, TVs etc. and labeled them with
German brands, and stupid consumer bought them for a higher price than
the same labeled Panasonic or JVC.
An other revealing experience was when Klevius in the early 1990s needed
a roller bearing for a Japanese car and was offered a European
(Swedish) SKF bearing. When Klevius asked if they had the original
Japanese they said yes but insisted that SKF was "at least equally
good". Klevius said that wasn't his expterience and asked to see the
Japanese bearing. When compared it turned out that
1 the Japanese brand was perfectly and hermetically packed while the
European was loosely wrapped in some oil paper and placed in a cheap
looking loose box. Klevius bought the Japanese one, opened it and
compared it to the European. It turned out that while the European had
scratch marks in all directions the Japanese marks were one directional
and extremely even.
2 When turning the bearings around near one's ear the Japanese was
silent and smooth while the European was noisy and shaky. Klevius asked
the seller which one he thought would last longer. He agreed with a
surprised face.
When Kobe in Japan was hit by an enormous earthquake in the late 1990s
all European "super cars" had to stop production because the most
crucial high quality items were made in Japan (read more further down).
European hybrid passenger cars came ten years after they were introduced
in Japan. And only with the help of Japanese technology branded German.
Japanese superiority and VW/Audi inferiority has since long been known through a multitude of surveys etc.
Against this background one might ask why world leading Honda isn't even on the list of the most sold cars in Europe?!
Honda (which together with Toyota/Lexus is the best car brand in the
world) doesn't even show up on the list of the most sold Europan cars
(2015 jan-jun):
1. Volkswagen: 867 147 sålda bilar, marknadsandel 12.1 %.
2. Ford: 528 902, 7.4 %
3. Renault: 508,850, 7.1 %
4. Opel/Vauxhall: 491,340, 6.9 %
5. Peugeot: 440 596, 6.1 %
6. Audi: 387 228, 5.4 %
7. Bmw: 356 444, 5.0 %
8. Mercedes: 354,471, 4.9 %
9. Fiat: 351,437, 4.9 %
10. Skoda: 304 635, 4.2 %
11. Nissan: 294 140, 4.1 %
12. Citroën: 287 344, 4.0 %
13. Toyota: 279 400, 3.9 %
14. Hyundai: 230 681, 3.2 %
15. Dacia: 205 115, 2.9 %
16. Kia: 195 158, 2.7 %
17. Seat: 180 272, 2.5 %
18. Volvo: 126 367, 1.8 %
Some quality notes
2014 Lexus luxury cars far outscored every other brand (especially
European ones) in dependability, with just 68 PP100, compared with e.g.
Mercedes' 104 PP100.
Part of the reason for the misconception about German engineering is
that German automakers did, at one time (i.e. before the Japanese showed
up on the block, earn it. When Consumer Reports started its Long-Term
Reliability Tests and Initial Quality Index tests way back in 1972,
German brands like Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz came out on top. The
initial quality of even the lowly VW Beetle topped many domestic
vehicles from Ford, Jeep, Pontiac and Mercury.
In the 1980s and 90s the most reliable models ended up coming from Honda, Toyota, Acura, Infiniti and Lexus.
In the late ‘90s Mercedes had released the dismally unreliable M-Class
SUV and the brand’s initial quality scores have plummeted since. Other
German brands had similar experiences.
According to Consumer Reports, Mercedes boosted its reliability a bit in
2011, but is still inconsistent. The same can be said for Mercedes’
German competitors, Audi and BMW. In Consumer Reports last five annual
reports, the last time these German brands have been above average in
reliability was back in 2007. Since then, they’ve all slumped below the
average in the industry.
Consumer Reports’ Long-Term Reliability test documents a car’s
reliability over the course of three years, while the Initial Quality
Index is based on consumer feedback from the first few months of a new
cars ownership.
Consumer Reports also has a report card that ranks automakers based on
their average car score, reliability score and the percentage of
recommended vehicles. The average score for these carmaker report cards
over the past five years (when they started the report cards) of the
German brands doesn’t crack 68/100, below the industry average and the
competition from the top Japanese automakers.
These results are reflected in numbers released by J.D. Power &
Associates as well. In the both of the latest J.D. Power Surveys, the
German brands can’t match up to their Japanese (and even some American)
luxury peers. In the most recent vehicle dependability survey,
Mercedes-Benz only gets a four out of five, which is “Better than most”
rating, while Audi and BMW get 3/5 or “About Average.” Volkswagen falls
below average with 2/5, what J.D. Power describes as “The Rest.” Porsche
is also ranked “Better than most” in J.D. Power’s dependability survey,
which give Mercedes-Benz some nice company. It’s important to note that
only one car maker had a score of 5/5, and that’s Lexus. However, Lexus
doesn't make cheap small cars for the masses as does Honda.
Nothing changes in J.D. Power’s Initial Quality rankings. Mercedes and
Porsche have 4/5 ratings, BMW and Audi get just 3/5 and VW only achieves
2/5. Lexus tops that ranking as well with a 5/5.
The J.D. Power ratings are based on consumer surveys. Initial Quality is
measured after 90 days of a new car’s purchase. Vehicle Dependability
Ratings are surveys based on the past 12 months of original owners of
three-year old cars. In other words, longterm quality issues do to poor
parts quality will show the Germans being even worse.
In 2013 the German TÜV checked cars reliability etc and placed Toyota
Prius in top for the up to 7 year old cars. Honda wasn't statstically
available due to low sales.
In an other study German cars were 'among worst for engine failures'.
Audi, BMW and VW ranked in the bottom 10 of a study into engine
reliability.
German-made cars are not as reliable as many believe, according to new
research. Warranty Direct has studied its claims data to compile a list
of the manufacturers with the most reliable engines - and Audi, BMW and
Volkswagen all finished in the bottom 10 out of a total 36 makers.
In fact, the only firm whose cars had a worse engine failure rate than
Audi was MG Rover. MINI wasn’t much better, finishing third from bottom,
while its parent company BMW came seventh from bottom. And, despite its
unfounded reputation for "rock-solid reliability", Volkswagen came
ninth from bottom.
Honda scooped the gold medal – the study found that just one in every
344 Honda engines failed, compared to one in every 27 Audi engines.
Apr 16, 2015 Honda has retained its status as the most reliable used car
manufacturer in the UK for the ninth consecutive year, according to
research by What Car? and Warranty Direct.
Already in the 1950's Frank Sinatra preferred a Japanese (Sony)
microphone - just like thousands of youngsters preferred a cool Honda
bike instead of the low performing old-fashioned and low quality BMWs.
Klevius wrote
FIVE YEARS AGO:
Honda has ALWAYS outperformed BMW when it comes to technology &
quality & safety & environment. However, when Klevius points to
this selfevident fact something similar happens as when a Dane draws a
funny pic of the desert robber Mohammed! Why this extreme self
delusion?! And why doesn't media talk abt the safety consequences of bad
engineering? BMW, VW, Audi, Volvo (not to mention French &
Italians) have extremely poor records throughout the last 5 decades!
What's more, the Euros turn out to burst into flames MUCH more often
than similar Japanese cars (same pattern with TV's btw)! See
a Swedish insurance list over car fires
(not caused by islamic jihadists but mostly because of poor quality).
Obama's racist Detroit campaign against Japanese high tech is really a
low mark, isn't it!
Technology in religion
1 Shinto/Secularism/Buddhism etc non-monotheist true religions (see the web's best
Definition of religion)
2 Protestantism (a protest against Catholic Christianity)
3 Other religions
4 Catholicism
5 Islam/Mohammedanism (the by far worst form of Judaic "monotheisms")
Is BMW a cult or a religion - or just insanity? BMWs have always been dangerous due to poor quality & poor handling
BMW
rides high on an empty reputation boosted by racist attitudes against
non-European cars (now Japanese but soon also Chinese - Korean cars are
slightly less smeared because 1) Koreans are more "monotheist" & 2)
Koreans have, wrongly, been seen as not a tech threat).
As a
rule of thumb, everything that's going faster than an old fogie on your
Bimmer is probably Made in Japan! Remember how the production of
European performance cars stalled after the Kobe earth quake?!
Btw, isn't it strange howe different the real world is from that one on the news & superficial fashion outlets!
If
you really need an oldfashioned 6-in line, go shop for an old Nissan
GTR (1989-), the unbeaten Japanese super car. Then you also get 4WD, 4WS
& computer controlled tuning so you don't have to suffer with the
RWD (hotted up by Mitsubishi though) of a lousy over weight & over
priced M3!
Here's
a funny story abt some crazy Japanese street mechanics enlivening a
tired BMW by the help of an old 1999 Honda S2000 STANDARD engine - 250
hp from 2 litre WITHOUT A TURBO more than a decade ago! Kiss my ass
Ferrari). Note the BMW's rev meter's redline at 6000 plus, & how the
lively Honda engine pushes the needle all the way round to the start
position at zero! see
the hilarious video!
Read Klevius - your way out of media indoctrination & false idols!
BMW
makes below average quality cars which it manages to sell as quality
cars although the only high quality on a BMW is the price tag. BMW has
had serious safety & "drivability" issues as long as I can remember.
But the selling (cheating) idea is good: Change as little as possible
to save costs & spice up the old corpse with cheap electronics etc!
In
fact, the main part of BMW's marketing department is outside the office
& works for free, i.e. the buyers! Just take a look at the Bimmer
forums! Orthodox thinking is the rule & questioning where the
Kaiser's clothes are is blasphemy.
I used to be a Bimmer
fan some hundred years ago so I know it hurts to face the truth.
However, I was well rewarded by the Japs I carefully chose for my
particular way of life. The worst chock I as a driver have ever
encountered was when I for the first time got a Subaru Leone Turbo in my
rear mirror & a couple of seconds later saw it vanishing in the
blizzard in front of me challenging my view on myself as the best
ice/snow driver in the village, no in the world*. I was ready for the
nut house until I was told it was a permanent (but switchable to FWD)
4WD with a front mounted boxer, computer controlled air suspension etc
(btw Subaru was first in the world with mass produced 4WD passenger cars
- Audi Quatro came a decade later!)! At that time I had already
switched to FWD from RWD. RWD worked surprisingly well though in an old
Mazda Luce 1800 from the 60s with good tyres & good balance, an
extremely long stroke but soft & powerful high quality alu OHC
engine with roller valve lifters & 94 mm stroke x 76 mm bore, & a
built in rear axis "slip resitance", unlike the stupid Bimmers of the
time which I frequently saw "parked" head down beside the road). The
Luce had an electronic Mitsubishi fuel pump three times the size &
power of other cars I checked (most cars back then had still
conventional pumps, though). It also helped that it had four headlights
which could be doubled (low+high beam) from the switch, plus a
Mitsubishi generator that was among the biggest & most powerful of
its time (plus a wonderful rarity still lacking on many cars, an
analogue ampere meter! Everything of this was standard, as was the built
in probably best engineering quality in the world at the time - due to
Toyo Kogyo's expertice as precision instrument makers & the only
company capable of producing functioning rotary engines - NSU/Audi &
MB miserably failed!). Moreover, double big wiper motors & separate
bass/discant horns with a lovely & convincing bass tone also added
to the fun in the slippery snowy Finnish darkness! My first Luce was
only driven some 300,000 km when I bought it so it lasted for years
despite my youthful carelessness abt oil changes etc insignificant
details! The gearbox was by far the best of its time & the clutch
extremely smooth, responsive & light compared to e.g. Volvos &
Saabs etc. Although only 104 hp on 1050 kg the car was very powerful at
higher speeds for its time (we're of course talking the manual version).
Cars with a lot more hp were easily beaten at high speed on long upward
slopes due to the high & flat torque curve etc. The brakes were
double the size of the neighbor's heavy American V8 & always in neat
balance with the wonderful clutch/engine for some "creative driving".
On top of this came an "oldfashioned" but extremely well made
worm-and-roller steering system that kept the car going straight no
matter if you hit a pothole (in fact I lost a front wheel while driving
120 km/h on a Finnish highway in a blizzard due to loose bolts - the
car just dropped down a little & slided until it stopped. I was abt
to pass another car so I had to waive to the driver to continue. He
looked scared at me & the rolling wheel in front of us). However,
the zero toe in & perfect camber/caster angles under most conditions
paired with suitable tyres, resulted in a soft & forgiving, yet
distinct control. When I got my Honda with rack & pinion I was first
irritated of even "too much" steering precision. The Luce didn't have
servo so I could read the road well via the wheel & through the well
functioning seat. The front seats had continuously variable "lady
killer" livers (not standard on all cars even today) that came in handy
when tired or otherwise feeling for a horizontal position. The cons? Too
short suspension movements (McPherson front/solid rear axle with leaf
springs - i.e. as far you can get from a Honda!) which I stiffed up a
bit by changing to the one's aimed for the "pickup". Even then you had
to try avoiding chassi contacts at high speeds although the big bussings
usually gave you a last chance.
* driving fast on poor icy/snowy roads in the dark for most part of the year makes a master of most (surviving) people!
When
I first tried a Subaru with permanent 4WD I reved it up on a partly icy
spot & expected a nice slip on both axis. However, there was no
slip but a brutal push forward that almost hurt me! The second
unexpected surprise came on the road when I switched from FWD to 4WD
& realized how this stiffed up the whole car in a manner that I'd
never felt before. It was as you were suddenly sucked to the ground
through all four wheels (this you can never feel in AWD's). Third
surprise was the wanderful & reliable AW throttle drifting
experience - with no switching between the axis, just pure 50/50 power
distribution all the time! Passing young foolish & struggling
Bimmers in the blizzard with ease & speed while picking one's nose
was admittedly always fun with a Subaru.
BMW silent iceberg of death & disaster
Unlike
Toyota who has got a "quality problem" from Detroit/Ill's Mr X
"president" without really having one**, BMW has a huge quality problem
without anyone really talking abt it.
** The only possible fault was a device
not made in Japan but by the American CTS Corp!
One of the many dangerous Bimmer "non-lemons" going on out there is here exemplified with the following commentator: "
What
I meant was with the documented unusually high failure rate of the N54 /
x35i HPFPs and people being stranded on the highway or having a near
accident, an extended warranty doesn't do anything to resolve these
important issues, which certainly should not still be happening after
four years. If a fuel pump on other BMW models can go 100K without
failures, how can the N54 HPFPs failing in 400, 1,200, 3,000, 5,000,
7,000, or 30K miles be reasonable or acceptable?"
BMW M3 (2010) – poor engineering compensated with the oldest of tricks, a big V8!
Driving
a BMW M3 (2010) compared to Subaru Sti is like having 3 big passengers
while lacking 4WD! Both cars have the same torque, so the only advantage
of M3 is more horsepower! And because of the extra weight & lack of
4WD (not to mention that the Subaru boxer is much lover) you may
conclude the rest by yourself. And I’ve not even mentioned the price
gap: M3 $58,400 Subaru Sti $34,995. Also consider the better
reliability of the Subaru! In real life “drivability” there’s no way the
M3 could ever compete with a Subaru. Some 240 kg extra load & dead
front wheels will inevitably take its toll!
But of course you can
comfort yourself that you got a BMW badge & some more or less
insignificant extras for your $24,000 you paid on top of the Subaru
$34,995 price tag! But the quality difference & the lack of 4WD will
always annoy you.
Who makes the best V8 in the world, Yamaha or Lexus?
Of course you already know that Yamaha makes the V8 in Noble 650.
And
of course you know that Lexus LFA is the best supersport car around!
And that the 500 kg heavier (Veyron's AWD - which is significantly
inferior to that of e.g. Subarus - doesn't help much to counteract half a
tonne of mass in the curves) & three times more expensive Veyron is
a laughable truck in comparison! And if you need more power than a
Subaru go for a Nissan GTR! A Veyron doesn't stand a chance against a
Nissan GFTR on Nurburgring!
The emotion trapped spin head(s?) on
Top Gear got it (deliberately?!) all wrong with his smear campaign
against the wonderful Honda Civic Type R when missing the real point of
the best non hybrid green sports car. Because of Honda’s technological
superiority it has managed to make engines that can be driven either as
normal cars with below average fuel consumption & pollution, or, to
rev it up when you feel for it & suddenly getting a sports car’s
engine. Where others use turbos Honda rests on technical sophistication
(just like the 1959 bike example above). A turbo consumes/pollutes much
more in normal driving simply because you can't avoid using it when it's
there. In fact, Honda's introduction of Civic many decades ago has
saved the world from a lot of unnecessary fuel consumption.
In
conclusion, Japan continues to offer not only the best cars for general
usage but also the greenest cars (Prius presented 1996) as well as the
best sports cars (incl. so called super cars - the aluminium Honda NSX
& the Atessa Nissan GTR were already presented in the late 1980s
& had both a long history of advanced sports technology going back
to the 1950s & 60s)!
Audi's gas pedal disaster that no one seems to talk abt!
The
plastic gas pedal in many new Audis is just falling on the floor
because it breakes so easily, especially during winter! What's next for
Audi - the brake pedal? And as you can see on the list below this is
surely not the only problem with Audi's (& VW's) poor quality.
Klevius wrote:
VW/Audi, part of Hitler's revenge on the after-world
The German protestant myth and the Japanese Shinto secret
Audi has constantly managed to score below average quality. Japanese have constantly managed to score above average. Why?
Has Hitler's cars victimized more people than his army?
German car maker Audi used Nazi slave labor during World War II
It all started with the stupid idea of a cheap car for the
masses with the driving unit over the driving wheels in the rear, the
battery in the middle, and the fuel tank in the front as the main impact
zone. As a consequence the engine was made air cooled with a huge noisy
fan. Luckily we don't see these kinds of dangerous cars anymore -
except for Porsche of course. Ever tried to drive a classic Porsche on a
road littered with grovel, old leaves etc., or just wet?! The Beetle
was definitely safer because of its lower power output and smother on
the road. However, the noise is almost the same.
The
need for a cheap, simple car to be mass-produced for Hitler's new
Autobahn network of Germany, was formulated by Hitler himself, the
leader of the National-socialist Germany. In June 1934 Ferdinand Porsche
received a contract from Hitler to design a "people's car" (or
Volkswagen). The production of this death trap went on from 1938 until
2003.
In other words, VW continued to spit out this dangerous car in
less developed countries for profit for 40 years after its much safer
front engine and front wheel driven successor Golf had been introduced.
In
1937, Porsche joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party
(becoming member no. 5,643,287) as well as Schutzstaffel (SS). By 1938,
Porsche was using the SS as security members and drivers at his factory,
and later set up a special unit called SS Sturmwerk Volkswagen. In
1942, Porsche reached the rank of SS-Oberführer. During the war, Porsche
was further decorated with the SS-Ehrenring and awarded the War Merit
Cross.
A new city, "Stadt des KdF-Wagens" was founded near
Fallersleben for the Volkswagen factory, but wartime production
concentrated almost exclusively on the military Kübelwagen and
Schwimmwagen variants. Mass production of the car, which later became
known as the Beetle, began after the end of the war. The city is named
Wolfsburg today and is still the headquarters of the Volkswagen Group.
Hitler
contracted Porsche in 1934 to design and build it to his exacting
standards. Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalise
the design. This is one of the first rear-engined cars. With over 21
million manufactured (21,529,464) in an air-cooled, rear-engined,
rear-wheel drive configuration, the Beetle is the longest-running and
most-manufactured and most dangerous car of a single design platform,
worldwide
This car was made in the 1960s at the same time as this Japanese Mazda
Luce (below) which in every aspect was its direct opposite - except for
the price tag. Yet, people continued buying the catastrophic Beetle!
Why? Because it was German and you couldn't trust the Japanese, could
you.
VW Beetle 1966: Air cooled engine based on WW2 technology. Maximum Output: 50hp, Top speed: 123 km/h.
0-60mph 23.0 (declared by factory but usually slower - the lousy engine rarely worked as it was planned to).
A more expensive but poor quality Audi from the same time
Audi 1700, 1966, 71 hp / 72 PS, top speed: 148 km/h (declared by factory
- not in real life); accelerations: 0- 60 mph 14.8 s (declared by
factory - not in real life). The engine was extremely old fashioned
compared to Mazda Luce's engine. Moreover, it was nowhere near the
quality and reliability of the Japanese. The car was in every other
aspect also inferior. Where the Audi had mechanical fuel pump, poor
electric generator, poor brakes etc. Mazda was just the opposite.
Already
in the late 1950s the Japanese technological and quality superiority
was obvious. Just compare the bikes above from BMW and Honda.
Mazda 1500 Luce 1966: 84 hp/86 PS, top speed: 160 km/h; accelerations:
0- 60 mph 14.3 s (declared by a cautious factory but usually faster).
OHC, Alu top, 50/50% weight distrib. Kad all the latest safety devices
etc that VW lacked. The most beautiful (did BMW copy it?) and reliable
(compared to its time) sedan ever made? Remember that Mazda was the only
one who managed to develope a functioning rotary engine! After the 1992
le Mans win Mazda's rotary engine was, of course, excluded from racing
again!
Sweden's biggest motoring organization warns: This is why Audi/VW engines fail
Is Audi the world's worst "luxury" car?
compared to the best
Some voices from VW/Audi victims further down on the posting
Klevius wrote:
Why is the media shouting FIRST EVER when a bunch of European countries try to copy what Japan did a decade ago?!
Nissan rocket no. 1 with the Hayabusa robot first ever in the world to
land and bring back stuff from a body (Itokawa asteroid) outside
Earth/Moon
Nissan rocket no. 2 Nissan GT-R Nismo the world's fastest non-electric super car
With a lap time of 7 min 8 sec Nissan GTR is the fastest, (non-hybrid*)
globally-homologated road car around the world's most famous race track
Nurburgring in Germany.
The old GTR was the first car to go under 8 minutes at Nurburgring.
* i.e. using a battery and Japanese hybrid technology to get extra power for the short time the ride lasts.
