French make the best engines!
Thom
Not quite sure if serious or not.
The amount of head gasket issues on the 207's perhaps say otherwise.
I'd give the award to Honda, Toyota or Nissan myself.
Always personally would chose Japanese for reliability but think Germany do a good all round car.
I'd imagine the PD 2.0 TDI kicked Audi in the bollocks. They seemed to have used it sooner than VW and they were all fairly naff. Lovely engines to drive, but porous cylinder heads and that ABSOLUTELY HIDEOUS oil pump set up wrote a few engines off I'd imagine.
Early oil balancer set up had chain issues, later ones including apparently a 2012 Q7 according to my balance shaft supplier had the hex key issues.
When you rip one out it seems like a fairly well engineered awful idea. The hex keys aren't long enough and a stupid idea all together IMO.