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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Nothing against Germans, but I dislike when US companies get bought up by German companies.
It should be Ford buying VW. VW is the one that sucks, but somehow people must like unreliable cars.
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VW is successful in almost all markets and one of the largest automakers in the world. It is interesting that their least successful market is the USA - but that shouldn't be surprising as the US market is very different from the rest of the world. We buy vehicles by the pound, have much lower fuel economy regulations, and in general have less advanced cars. In VW's defense a lot of the long term unreliability of their cars comes for US buyers not doing the maintenance correctly and on schedule. There are a large number of US car owners that do nothing but oil changes until something breaks and even then they are likely to use the wrong oil because the correct oil costs more.
Ford was an automaker competing in most global markets but has basically surrendered everything but North America. They can't seem to make the kind of vehicle the rest of the world buys at a profit and have their own reliability issues now that the US has boosted our fuel economy standards just a bit and US vehicles are getting turbos and many speed transmissions. Ford's first dual-clutch transmission was so bad they recently settled the first class action and have 2 more pending.