Thread: Bmw 3351

Originally Posted by Ryan

My post was to counter the generalisation that European cars are crap. That is to say, if they were as crap as they are made out to be then nobody would buy them. There are many European cars in (particularly in South Africa for example) with many miles on them. In Europe and many other countries they are used as taxis and would do infinitely more mileage than your average NZ driver.

Like anything life, if one maintains it correctly - it generally will last.

Presumably parts availability and servicing is cheaper in Europe where they're a lot more abundant & closer to where they're produced

Originally Posted by gimp

Presumably parts availability and servicing is cheaper in Europe where they're a lot more abundant & closer to where they're produced

Well, yeah I guess but there are also many production facilities outside of Europe. South Africa for example assembles BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Opel, Volvo and exports some of them to RHD markets like the African RHD countries, the UK, Japan, Australia and NZ.

There are VW facilities in South America, USA, Mexico, China. BMW has production facilities in India, Egypt, USA. It's the same with just about every other European or Asian manufacturer.

i find most cars are about the same to 100,000ks then the euros start to suffer with dumb shit going wrong that is not happening so much in japas, you need deep pockets to own old euros,when people say there euro car is reliable its either new or they do not know what a reliable car is like to own.no repairs in a 100.000ks is reliable and normal.