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General Car Chat / Re: Bavarian brawn
« on: 12 April 2024, 10:03:20 »It's a trend started by those dickheads at Vag who couldn't package a car if their lives depended on it.
There's nothing different about VAG that makes them do it, it's just how German engineers think.
Like this:
E1 - Nobody has ever considered putting this bit here before, but it might sort-of-work if we did
E2 - Let me do my PHD thesis on how there's a nominal 1.76749499963638399% improvement in the alpha wave retention feedback circuit** if we do
E1 - Congratulations, see you in three years by which time we'll have built 23.5 prototypes and have it ready for production!
E2 - I'm back, and the improvement is 0.057483929% better than we thought, so all this work and extra 37 parts are more than justified!!!!
Foreign Engineer - Wow that looks complicated and expensive to make And it means that changing the oil filter will take now 3hours if the mechanic follows the 12page procedure and has the special tools
E2 - It is expensive***, but I've done the maths and it's better. Written procedures and special tools Now I've got a hardon for a second doctorate, see you in another 3 years
E1 - What's a mechanic?
Foreign Engineer - opps me, I wish I was still at Citroen where things made sense....
** or whatever techy bullshit that nobody care about is in fashion at the time
*** No German engineer has ever understood the word complicated, especially when paired with unnecessary