Swabian engineers...you can´t beat them

[Marcus]

Funny video from the recent IAA-Autofair in Frankfurt:

IAA 2011 Hyundai new generation i30 and Martin Winterkorn (Chairman of the Volkswagen AG) - YouTube

Watch VW´s -next to god- chairman Martin Winterkorn personally inspecting Hyundai´s latest model.

When sitting inside and inspecting the car´s steering column adjusting mechanism he shouts at VW´s head of design:"Nothing rattles...BMW can´t do it, we can´t do it, so why can they do it?"

Following that he as a typical Swabian engineer can´t resist to get a tape measure and check dimensions himself.

 

[Keith]

The S Koreans are making some seriously good (&) value cars right now...
I'm sure the prejudice against will hang around for quite a while yet, but the senior citizens in the UK don't care, they are selling many cars in that market.

Watch out Swabians!

Thanks for posting Marcus. I wonder if Hyundai will use that clip in future advertising? That surely must be the highest accolade..