Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti for 6 months. The worst car I ever had. Just gave it away in the end. Philippe Op 26-okt-06, om 20:26 heeft Mark Langer het volgende geschreven: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >