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    I am guilty of working on Cayenne 1 in 2000 and I told them they were having a larf (I had done a year in 1990 at their styling studio), "no we really think it will sell", and sell it has, more than their other lines do. Then I went onto Touareg, Q7, Q5 and finished off my carrier at RR on the Cullinan, a right load of IMO. Rich effers will always buy to impress other rich effers. That"s the world.
  2. Cayenne, Touareg, Q7"s are all built on the same assembly line at the VW plant in Bratislava. inner body panels are mostly the same so you are just playing with specifications from them as VW call all the shots. I designed the first Cayenne dash 2000-2002 , did part of the leather launch on Touareg 2002, last one was the lifting central display on the dash of the Q7 ca. 2016. They all get street tyres, I once met a hunter who could not get knobbly winter tyres to fit in his Cayenne wheel wells. They are all Chelsea tractors imo. Merc is made in Alabama. No, I retired at 68 y/o 2 years ago. I did the Q5 dash in Puebla Mexico 2016 where they told me not to expect the quality to match the outgoing model from germany for expected 10 years as it was a new plant with no history (plant was 70 kms out of town as Mex gov wanted to spread the work around the nation a bit.
  3. Cayenne, Touareg, Q7"s are all built on the same assembly line at the VW plant in Bratislava. inner body panels are mostly the same so you are just playing with specifications from them as VW call all the shots. I designed the first Cayenne dash 2000-2002 , did part of the leather launch on Touareg 2002, last one was the lifting central display on the dash of the Q7 ca. 2016. They all get street tyres, I once met a hunter who could not get knobbly winter tyres to fit in his Cayenne wheel wells. They are all Chelsea tractors imo. Merc is made in Alabama.
  4. Nope, one of them is a certified Tesla roadster mechanic and he has to check the tyre pressures on the one Elon has spinning around up there.
  5. You left the EU on 31st dec 2019 what is there to fight for? The battle is over, the remainers lost . I am getting a German passport due to all the craap.
  6. I have just watched the whitewash by Boris. That"s it, I will not trust Boris or his government in the future. A blatant ignoring of rules.
  7. Wow, he signed mine in a BASC evening at Canterbury and I paid £15. It is an interesting read though.
  8. After my 50 years in the car business I still find it stupid to use painted plastic for bumper (no longer functions as such) material. It is not designed for function as they are held on with a few clips that spring off with any minor contact and scratches that will happen in a cars life become overly visible and cause such grief to owners. Bring back moggy 1000 gpo vans with rubber wings.
  9. They were the hardest technical challenge in my 50 years in the car business, Elon said if he had known how hard they would be to make work he would have dropped his demand, but we got there in the end.
  10. bavarianbrit

    Scum

    All volunteers line up after me.
  11. Tesla parts come a long way before they hit UK shores. My wifes merc A class was the same rip off for a scratched bumper. Are you on an S, a 3. an X or a Y? I worked for 3 interesting months in the Fremont plant on the X falcon doors.
  12. Indian shops sometimes have rosewood utensils imported from the subcontinent. The ones I brought back from there 10 years ago still work fine.
  13. I have a canadian father that I never met so I did the emigration thing (landed immigrant status) in 1971 when I hit 21 intending to meet him, never did. I arrived with a little pocket money and £500 sent over well in advance by Lloyds to a Toronto bank, turned up for it and they knew nothing about it. I had a tough time with never met before relatives till the funds arrived and gave up on it all after 6 weeks & came home using the last £110 for a one way and they put me in 1st class on a 707. Have always wondered what I had missed but I made a good living so no regrets, now turns out I am entitled to claim canadian citizenship from the fathers side but now at 70 why? My apprentice mate went over after I had and became a multi millionaire in Ontario with century 21 real estate dealing in only 12 years.
  14. Then you would also have to put signs down warning passers by of snow icicles coming off the roof usually this was done for blocks of flats where there was a caretaker (hausmeister) to do this chore. I have worked on and off (much more on) in Germany in the car industry since 1973 now I live here in retirement, I have never met the stereotypical kraut that every film portrays. I have met and worked for lots of office managers/small business owners that would leave you bankrupt if they could though "never trust anyone who works wearing a suit" but co-workers and all others over the years have been very open and polite. Business is war is a German saying.
  15. As long as the USA stay"s on top with their manifest destiny mentality we are going nowhere fast.
  16. DM source. Prince Harry sold a pair of hunting rifles before leaving the UK for North America, it has been revealed. The news comes after Jane Goodall revealed Harry, who has hunted buffalo, could stop shooting animals as 'Meghan doesn't like hunting.' Harry has been absent from recent shoots at Balmoral and Sandringham, while Buckingham Palace was forced to dismiss rumours that Meghan had banned him from taking part in a Boxing Day shoot in December 2018. C##tstruck.
  17. If anyone has one could they please post me a pic or 2 as I have a lathe and could do copies of the tools. Thanks.
  18. I once ate some swan that was legally taken in their hunting season in Brandenburg Germany, BBQ"d tasted like good beef steak HMMM!!
  19. Saw the photo this morning as he reentered No 10, the door opening flunky was not masked ***?
  20. A german journalist likened it yesterday to listening to a very drunk person trying to talk sober and failing.
  21. Just had a double mask on at the diy shop over here, it was very strenuous lifting 4 big sheets of osb with 25% oxy coming through.
  22. Used to see Elon sometimes coming through the office when I was working at Tesla Fremont, he seemed an OK guy to me. Achieved far more than NASA has so far, an amazing character.
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