type 44 syndrome, but no Audi content

[frank j. bauer]

At 02:13 AM 4/15/2002, Mike Arman wrote:
>What does this have to do with us?
>
>In a (very) few years, the you-pull-it yards will be full of pre-GM
>Daewoos, because no one will want them - excpet for a small group of people
>who are willing to fix the cars themselves and scrounge parts, and probably
>have an internet support group . . .
>
>And of course, you are thinking, so who wants one of these ****boxes,
>anyway? How *DARE* he compare a Daewoo to my revered Audi type 44????? The
>Daweoo is a much less expensive car - true, but it is 15 years newer, and
>part of the reason it is less expensive is that labor in Korea is MUCH less
>expensive than labor in Germany - and the portion of the price that pays
>Hans und Fritz's retirement benefit (or pays team doorhandle) does NOT make
>the car better - that is overhead! Also, the exchange rate is greatly in
>OUR favor with the Korean Won and generally not in our favor with the DM or
>now the Euro - and you cannot tell me that a 10% price increase in the cost
>of an Audi because of interntional currency fluctuations makes the car 10%
>better - it does NOT!
>
>Daewoo makes some large cars (not just econoboxes), and in three or four
>years we may find that the Daewoo Eleganza (or whatever) is available at a
>greatly depressed price, and you can get a lot of car for not much money,
>just like type 44 Audis were available after the 60 minutes debacle.
>
>Food for thought.

daewoo quattro?
didn't think so!
nuff said...

frank