German economy hits ten year high ...

[DodgyAgent]

I'm with SAS here,

DA you're talking out of your backside as usual

Friends of mine in the UK find it hard to accept that in the coming recession the mainland won't be hit as hard as the UK, but the fact is borrowing on the mainland has much tougher entry criteria

Milan.

So with the Euro flying high, with the world economies suffering from the fall out of the USA recession, and with Germany being a huge exporter, and the with the Germans squirrelling their cash under the pillow who precisely is going to buy German goods? and also bear in mind that this recovery by Germany (if you can call it that) has only been for the last three months.

[DodgyAgent]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.... :

you've just eaten that havent you? you greedy git.

[sasguru]

So with the Euro flying high, with the world economies suffering from the fall out of the USA recession, and with Germany being a huge exporter, and the with the Germans squirrelling their cash under the pillow who precisely is going to buy German goods? and also bear in mind that this recovery by Germany (if you can call it that) has only been for the last three months.

You really are a plonker, rodders.

[DodgyAgent]

You really are a plonker, rodders.

Well I have to admit you do have Milan's endorsement after all

[sasguru]

Well I have to admit you do have Milan's endorsement after all

Milan is a potato head who occasionally gets things right by luck.
HTH

Seriously though, reading crappy articles in the press is no substitute for real facts and first hand experience.

[DodgyAgent]

Milan is a potato head who occasionally gets things right by luck.
HTH

Seriously though, reading crappy articles in the press is no substitute for real facts and first hand experience.

I'm not sure we want to know about the experiences of your first hand.

[Bagpuss]

Its genetic, Brits can't make cars. I mean, seriously, would anyone here buy a British car, if there was one.

That's a little unfair, Rover cars were getting good under the Japanese collaboration. If you look back in history we've made some good cars compared to what was around at the time e.g the Mini, the first car with a transverse mounted engine and fwd, this was a decade and a half before the first Golf. When Talbot was bought by Peugeot they rebadged a waiting Talbot production model as the 309 with few modifications, that car went on to sell well for years.

Then remember the great sports cars.. Jaguar, Lotus, TVR, MG, Morgan, Triumph,Jenson.

We can build good cars, when BMW were considering buying Rover, the first thing they commented on was how good the build quality of the cars were, in some cases better than their own. The lack of investment killed the UK motor industry, more and more they had to churn out old and tired designs dating back to when the Japanese were dumped.


We can build cars, we do build cars, unfortunately not for UK companies.

[BlasterBates]

The Austin Princess.....

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Its genetic, Brits can't make cars. I mean, seriously, would anyone here buy a British car, if there was one.

I would. Just because Clarkson and all the motoring press keep chanting BMW,BMW,BMW doesn't mean we all listen.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

The Austin Allegro with the "square" steering wheel...

The Morris Marina 1800 that BL proposed to release onto an unsuspecting public with lever arm dampers from the Morris 1000... (until the press stopped them from doing it until they put proper dampers on the lethal piece of tulipe).

Er no - my mate's Marina had lever arm dampers - they were rubbish (they didn't get telescpic until the Ital), but not necessarily any worse than some of the tuilpe from abroad at the time.

Early Japanese cars were rusty death traps but sold because you got a free radio - big deal.