foreign cars (joke)

[Dave Eaton <dave.eaton@minedu.govt.nz>]

sorry folks, couldn't resist....

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q
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>From "How to Repair Your Foreign Car", 1968:

You see, every nationality has its own philosophy of car building.  To the 
British, everything is a sporting proposition and the removal of a starter 
motor is really a game to see who is more clever--you, trying to figure out 
how to get it off, or the designer who figured out how to get it on.  When the
thing finally comes loose and lands on your nose, you've won.  Polite 
applause.

On the other hand, the Germans would rather you didn't fool around with the 
mechanicals at all.  Who are you, with your crude tools and your pittance of 
knowledge, defiling an object that took teams of Germany's finest technical 
minds to conceive?  Besides, it _can't_ break.  When it does, though, you're 
supposed to take it to a high priest from the factory who has the specialized 
tools, the patience and, above all, the training to fix it correctly.  Said 
high priest, by the way, asks and gets squillions of dollars an hour for his
services, so, bearing that in mind, go ahead and defile.

The Swedes build slapping good, strong cars that'll go over, around, under 
and through anything.  And as long as it starts in the morning and keeps 
running, you won't mind if there are American, Whitworth and metric 
fittings all on the same car, now will you?

The French?  Ahh, the French.  Who can _begin_ to understand the French?