[Calvin Locke]

Reminds me of ...

...a Fortune Magazine article from the 1980s on Jaguar's quality problems.

The founder of Jaguar was too British in that he wouldn't buy real electrical parts from West Germany, instead, opting to buy the poor quality British stuff at the time.

Was that Lucas, perchance?

Not that German electrical stuff is all that great. One of my VWs had a number electrical parts failures.

Great fun when the power window switches break when it starts raining, and the window(s) are down....

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Was that Lucas, perchance?
Why do the English drink warm beer?
Lucas Electric

[yankeedame]

I don’t know about German electrical gizmos, but having lived over there a number of years I will say I was singularly unimpressed with the so-called “German efficiency”. Not to mention their the-customer-is-always-last retail m.o.