Xenophobic thread alert!!!

[warren t claim]

A friend has commented to me that LHD european cars are better made than RHD examples because the French, Germans, etc hate us Brits and the moment the car gets its steering column attached no further care is taken in its manufacture!

[Guest]

Your friend sounds like a real interesting guy!

[HillmanImp]

These foreign cars coming into our country taking away the livelihood of hard working British cars.....

[Mike D]

Damn those robots and their intercontinental hatred

[warren t claim]

Your friend sounds like a real interesting guy!

Yeah, he then went on for half an hour about clutch cables!!!

[Dukestar25]

Your friend sounds like a real interesting guy!

Yeah, he then went on for half an hour about clutch cables!!!

I heard a similar story about Volvo sending the top quality stuff to Uncle Sam (their biggest customer) and sending us the less-than-perfect stuff and still charge us more than the Yanks for the privelege of owning one. (I've never seen a Volvo break down so this story could be utter crap )

[Albert Ross]

I always thought the Picasso was revenge for Waterloo..........Ever tried doing a cambelt on a HDi version?

[ashmicro]

French cars are the work of the devil himself.And, the LHD/RHD joke is on Johnny Foreigner. It is proven that in a no-thought instinctive emergency that a person will pull to the left. That is why driving on the left, though confined to a very few countries, is actually safer. A panicking driver will pull off the road rather than into oncoming traffic.Tell you mate that one, Warren!

[Barry Cade]

I always thought the Picasso was revenge for Waterloo..........Ever tried doing a cambelt on a HDi version?

Piece of pi** compared to a Clio 182!

[reallyloud]

After driving a Coventry made 206, I'm convinced that all RHD cars have built in defects, regardless of where they're made in Europe.

[Milford Cubicle]

They don't have the wipers set up for RHD do they?

[Pillock]

Occasionally a RHD car is more complex or not as well performing as LHD... an example being Mk3 Polos where the RHD pedal box is linked to the servo with a whacking great metal pole, as the servo remains in the LHD position.Pole flexes and so RHD cars have rubbish brakes. I'm told many touring car teams used to use LHD cars as the car was more balanced - the cars are designed initially for LHD so there's more weight on the right to balance the driver. If they used an RHD shell they'd have to move a lot of metal.

[Barry Cade]

Always worndered if thats why some Japanese cars,which are originally RHD, have the engine on the left,and spin backwards...?

[Albert Ross]

In Honda's case, it was indeed to accomodate the servo assembly IIRC.

[Richard]

Occasionally a RHD car is more complex or not as well performing as LHD... an example being Mk3 Polos where the RHD pedal box is linked to the servo with a whacking great metal pole, as the servo remains in the LHD position.Pole flexes and so RHD cars have rubbish brakes.

SAABs have a similar system, on the throttle pedal too IIRC.