Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hand assembled isn't automatically a guarantee that the car is better built than on a mechanized assembly line. Last summer, I toured the Corvette assembly plant. Corvettes are assembled on a production line, the Cadillac XLR is hand-assembled in a different part of the same plant. Both cars are based on similar mechanics. Yet the XLR is considerably less reliable than a Corvette. I drive a 2003 Honda S2000. Up to 2004, these cars were hand-assembled in Honda's racing car facility. From 2004 on, they were made on a production line in another Honda plant. I'd like to say that mine is better built than the later ones, but all data that I have indicates that there is no difference in build quality or reliability between the two types. It does appeal to my snob factor to be driving the hand-assembled model, but I think that is the only "quality" difference. Mark On 10/26/06, GREG LORENZO <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Joseph Yao writes: > > > I have experienced the same. > > > > My BMW E46 M3 is certainly better built than the average E46 3 series. I > am > > off to Stuttgart in a fortnight to collect a Porsche GT3 - I shall find > out > > if the 'hand-built' GT3 is better built than the regular mass-produced > (if > > such description can be applied to Porsche) Carreras. > > > > Hi Joseph, > > Can you drive it most of the way home from Germany? If you can, you'll > want to break it in, in Germany, before you leave. > > Regards, > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >