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well, 100% of iphones made in china, 80% of worldwide TVs sold are made in Turkey, E53 was made in the US, SAAB is being made in China, some E70s were put together in Russia, my wife's 335 was made in S. Africa...
I totally understand your point - when i am paying "german" price for something, I expect it to be MADE in germany, not just designed there... and if you are sticking me with a chinese made sh!t, then charge me "chinese" price... i hate chinese made things - but must admit, if the iphone is genuine apple product, that is made in china, it will have a slightly better quality (one would hope so!!) than an "iphone" that is a knock-off... There is a huge secondary market of industrial equipment, that the chinese are buying up - they buy whole factories, old lathes, a lot of old molds... then they bring it to china, build the factory with those old tools and start making the same things that were originally made with those tools... the problem is, the old molds, tools are out of specs, nobody maintains them as the original factory techs used, and the chinese cut corners on the quality of materials used... hence, we end up with cheap sh!t that is sold to us at premium prices...
I just hope that the coil pack that was made in china still has the same 2 year unlimited mileage warranty as the rest of BMW parts...
as far as the light bulb - I bought mine about 15 years ago in France, it cost about $10 a pop, and still running on my tails in the E53 - first i ran them on the front corners of the euro spec'd xenons on the E39, then took them off... I think they were made in Hungary...
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