European impressions; I must vent my frustration

[james accordino]

I think TUV has a lot to do with this as well.
Pronouned "toofuff", it's an exhaustive inspection by
a squad of white lab-coated gents who scour the car
from above and below.  Required repairs are often
prohibitively expensive.  See the high speed driving
posts for further info or just imagine an upper or
lower suspension failure at 125 mph.

Jim Accordino

--- "P. Stegawski" <piotrs at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Jenny wrote:
> >As to your European impressions Ed, I agree it's a
> bummer that "classic"
> >Audis
> >aren't appreciated in their homeland.  I think part
> of it is that it's
> >rare to
> >see older cars on the road in Europe, period.  I
> don't know why.
>
> I don't think they are not appreciated in Europe,
> but the cost of
> ownership, especially in Germany is too high for
> older cars. Your
> insurence, and registration increases as the car
> ages, so why not buy a
> new car and pay less. It used to be that the older
> cars out of western
> Europe would make it to central europe and Russia. I
> lived in Poland for
> 10 years and there used to be a lot of used cars
> being brought over from
> the west. This changed years ago as the Polish
> government passed laws that
> prohibit registering older imported cars. This was
> done in order to help
> new car dealers/manufacturers in Poland. Older cars
> in Poland have to pass
> mechanical inspection, and not just emissions like
> it is in most parts of
> USA, which is another reason people buy new cars.
> The general trend, as
> far as I know, in that part of europe is now similar
> to western europe -
> just buy new cars, and forget the older ones.
>
> Peter
> '90 200TQ
>


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