Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 08:23:30 +0200 From: Peter Bozz <fake-usernospam.email.address> Subject: Re: Cost of repair Audi BMW Saab...(crossposting)
Dori A Schmetterling wrote: > At least in Germany seeing lots of BMWs and Mercs is no illusion! They are > top sellers: > http://www.kfz-auskunft.de/kfz/pkw_neuzulassungen_2003.html > > In the Netherlands I seem to see Mercs on every corner... > > DAS A short drive around where I live revealed 8 Mercs. Now, it's no Beverly Hills, just a fairly affluent neighborhood of a big Dutch city (actually, I crossed over into the affluent neighborhood from the not-so-affluent part of town I live in). There were a couple of Saabs and a few of the ubiquitous V40/V70 Volvos. I counted 6 BMWs and at least one A6, two A4s, a Jaguar XJ and a Lexus LS400. Most of the Mercs were of course C series. I didn't count the CLK Cabrio my local drug dealer drives: he's hardly representative of the general population and might skew my empirical data. I guestimate that I must have seen about 500 cars. Most people here seem to have a, shall we say, predilection for spacious MPV type of cars, mostly uninspiring brands I coudn't even tell apart. Think Ford, Opel, Peugeot, Fiat, some Japanese and Korean brands, whatever. I wonder, what city was it that you say you saw Mercs on every corner? Peter
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