VW Drivers was a bit broad I admit, should I say 'Golf GTI drivers with an online presence'
I don't understand what your trying to say though about the 'all french cars are crap' statement, if you make such a swipe at a large range of automobiles you are bound to be branded an ass as you clearly haven't got enough informaiton to make such a statement.
However, some of the french cars surely are crap, take most of the 205 range absolute garbage they're slow and they handle terrible they are truely crap. The citroen range is full of crap cars, the BX, the XM etc, horrible ugly nasty pieces of engineering. Some people love them though.
VW has some crap cars too, take the MK2 Polo, it's horrible to drive, body roll from hell, and it's like driving a tin can on wheels, Non GTI's Mk1 and 2 golfs are also nasty cars, admitedly the interiors are better then french cars of a comparable age but thats about it, they too are slow, handle badly, take a look at G/H reg passats these days, most of them have serious rust patches on them and are looking extremely tatty.
The itallians make some unbelievably good cars, Ferrari are owned by Fiat, yes Fiat, and we all know they made the Uno which was scary as a 1.0 I never drove the turbo thank god. The Punto, what a total crock of sh!t.
Then we get to VX/Opel, they made the, wait for it, Nova, and the Corsa and the Astra and the Cavalier. But they also happen to make stonking good engines, the LET and the 16v 2.0 are extremely good engines but the cars they are in are rust bucket sh!t.
Ford make the fiesta, which are great for carrying your ranny tot he shop and back twice a week, but as a drivers a car are lacking in pretty much every way. However ford also make the Escort RS Cosworth, the RS500 and recently the Focus RS, all of which are very good cars.
I needn't carry on with taking a dig at some of Honda's poor efforts of the past, and seat, and even Audi before they reinvented themselves with the A4 and A6 were always a poor 3rd to BMW and Merc.
The problem is that too many people these days don't think about things long enough to actualy make a judgement based on the facts. The lad with the Clio for example probably loves his Clio RSI, and if that makes him happy is it any different to you with your golf or one of the french people with their 205? I doubt it.
Anyway I stand by my previous statement and extend it. And yes i'm sure I want to make statements like that.
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