I don't like German cars except for Porsches. Volkswagen owns about half of the European automotive industry and is pretty much the opposite of its name.
Opels... exist.
The Big Three tend to make jackasses out of people, BMW and Audi drivers are notorious for ignoring traffic laws. BMWs get more tasteless every new generation - the "Bangle Era" was divisive, but they had style. Nowadays it's all about the "Kidneys".
This one is the 2017-2020 model. Pretty sensible, right?
And this is the new 2021 model. Fucking disgusting.
At least you can tell the different lines apart - with Audi you need a measuring tape to differentiate between the A4/A6/A8 and the A5/A7 lines. Marvelous pieces of engineering but they completely lack a soul. Benzes are mostly fine, save for their dark years in the aughts when they made some absolutely crap-tastic vehicles. According to my acquaintances who own a Benz they're still sensitive to maintenance and not very rugged, but at least there are no glaring engineering errors - like the Diesel runaway-prone BMWs - with them.
French and Italian cars are quirky and fun, but they had pants-on-head retarded engineering solutions that made maintenance an absolute nightmare - like having to remove the whole engine just to change a fuel pump or an oil filter - and Italian cars had notoriously bad electronics.
That's all I can sperg for now. Fuck the Euro 7 emissions standard, fuck dual-weight flywheels, fuck Tesla for being the Apple of the automotive industry, fuck jannies, fuck automatic trannies, fuck downsizing - 900cm3 three-cylinder engines with four fucking turbos? good luck having it last for a hundred thousand kilometres -, and fuck the German automotive giants for their part in the Diesel scandal and providing the EU a perfect opportunity to force even stricter dark green enviro-fascists standards down our throats.
