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Who Cares If The New Maserati Quattroporte Has Chrysler Switches?
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02-04-2013, 11:11 AM
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Who cares if it has Chrysler switches, because it's a bloated caricature of itself. Looks like a Buick.
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02-04-2013, 11:39 AM
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And why do they feel the need to go to touch screens? The Ford "mytouch" is just a huge distraction from what I need to be doing, which is driving.
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They're all just a bunch of appliances these days.
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Does Maserati have a history of putting together well built cars?
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02-04-2013, 11:45 AM
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A Maserati with a Chrysler tub.
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02-04-2013, 12:04 PM
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You guys seem to have a good pulse on these cars. So it seems the dreaded reliability Chrysler influence is one step better then what Maserati used to be... hah.
So onto the Ford / Aston Martin generation. Watching the prices seemingly bottom out on some beautiful exclusive low mileage cars. Nice offerings for $30 to $35k range. Are they fairly reliable?
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Gaaaaaaah, my eyes! Badge engineering gone HORRIBLY wrong.
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I can't speak to Aston, but I know Ford had a positive impact on Jaguar. The cars developed under Ford ownership were drastically more reliable than the previous generation. Some were mostly Fords (S-Type, X-Type) but the XJ and XK models benefited as well. My 2000 XJR was a very reliable car.
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The VW switches and door handles on my 944 worked just as well as they did on my Rabbit. In fact the glove box in the Rabbit worked a lot better than the one in the Porsche.
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M3/LS2/T56/3.38
