What brands would that be? Remember that I'm in the US, we don't have most of the European cars. Brazil actually has more cars than us. There's some VWs just made for Brazil, like the Santana and Fox, and of course the Sedan for South America and Mexico (the "Sedan" is the old-style Beetle, only made new, so yes, VW
still makes the old Bug). Do you mean like BMW or Mercedes? BMW is excellent, world class, but Mercedes, sadly, has slumped in the past few years, but only in the US. Why? Because they made a new factory in the US, in Alabama, so the quality is WAY down now. The M-Class's reliability is rated negative 113%, where 0% is the average

. This happened to VW in the last 1980s to the early 1990s. They had a factory in Philadelphia, which made the worst VWs ever. No offense, but because it was made by Americans. After quite a few years of crap, they shut down the factory and built one in northern Mexico, which is still in use today. Peugeot, Renault, and Citroën are good. Lancia, Skoda, SEAT, Fiat, Alfa, Opel, and others are good too. But being in the US, we're stuck with a very limited selection. VW sells several other models in Europe, that are not sold in the US, like the Polo and Lupo, same with Audi, like the A3, S3, RS3, A2, S2, RS6, RS4, S8, RS8, and I think that's it. In the US, we're stuck with American junk. What's really sad, is that Japanese cars are actually very very good, the ones in Japan... but the ones in the US are
made in the US, so sadly, well, they're crap. People in Europe make fun of American cars in Europe, but the ones in Euro are a million times better than the ones in the US! Whenever a person from Europe visits the US and rents an American car, they are always appauled at how much worse the car was than they thought.
I don't call it a
fixation, I call it more of a......fetish. Well, no no, fixation, yes, let's keep it at fixation.
And Werner, what is your car?