Nobby wrote:
I'm sure someone can argue that unionisation defended indefensibly shoddy workmanship, but in Europe, US cars are defined by the anecdotes of dealers taking delivery of US cars with a half-eaten sammich and an empty coke bottle in the foot well despite the "Quality Control" sticker on the window.
The fact that they mention coke "bottles" should tell you it's a long past-its-prime urban legend :P
And I think the initial quality of US cars has actually been very good recently, it's the reliability that has sucked.
Since the first line was a rhetorical question in refutation that the term "millionaire" has any correlation to wealth these days. And especially since I also wrote