1976 Audi Fox from North America - Off Topic Comments

A review of a 30 year old car? Submitted now? For a car that you owned almost 30 years ago? And this is a proof of shoddy German engineering? Right...

By the way, how many Pintos are there out there on the roads? An how long is it since you saw a Citation, Omni/Horizon or a Reliant on the road? They all never lasted very long. Cars of the seventies and early eighties were mostly all bad except for Cadillacs and MB knew how to make quality cars back then (not to be compared with the current model lines). Today almost all cars seem to have the same quality, and that is mediocre (not good, not bad).

What does how many Pintos or anything else 25+ years old are still on the roads have to do with an Audi Fox?

As far as whether today's cars are "mediocre", consider this: 30-40 years ago, a car that made it to 100K miles was considered ready for the junkyard, now it's just halfway through it's useful life...

<< Cars of the seventies and early eighties were mostly all bad except for Cadillacs and MB knew how to make quality cars back then (not to be compared with the current model lines). Today almost all cars seem to have the same quality, and that is mediocre (not good, not bad).>.

Cadillac NEVER made a good car from 1960 onwards.

"By the way, how many Pintos are there out there on the roads? An how long is it since you saw a Citation, Omni/Horizon or a Reliant on the road? They all never lasted very long. Cars of the seventies and early eighties were mostly all bad except for Cadillacs and MB knew how to make quality cars back then (not to be compared with the current model lines). Today almost all cars seem to have the same quality, and that is mediocre (not good, not bad)."

Funny you should ask, because I just saw a really nice Reliant yesterday. In fact, I see different Reliants almost every day. You must be one of those picky people who will never be satisfied with any car, and will always find something to whine about. Cars of the '70s were mostly all bad? My '71 Barracuda was great, as was my '71 Charger, '73 Charger, '75 Charger, '76 Volare, '79 Volare, '80 Volare (oops, sorry, that's an '80s car). Our '84 Reliant was also a good car, as was our '85 Dodge and '89 Chevy. Lest anyone thinks that I'm remembering these old, "mostly bad" cars through rose-colored glasses, I still have the '71 Barracuda, '73 Charger, '75 Charger, and '85 Dodge and they are STILL good cars. I honestly hadn't driven anything nicer until 2005. Up until then, cars of the 1970's were better than cars of the 1980's and 1990's.

Sorry, but when even the American car industry admits that their worst quality cars were built in the 1970's you are clearly the exception, not the rule.

And, of course, if these 1970's were so fantastic and better than the competion, it is logically impossible for the foreign cars (mainly Japanese) to have made any headway. After all, all British makes, most Italians, and the French ones left the market due to poor quality.

Yet today, 30 years later, Toyota is almost the largest car company in the world, ALL the American car makers have lost substantial marketshare, Ford just sold Aston Martin to pay off its severe debts, and Chrysler will likely be in yet ANOTHER foreign hand by summer.