Actually, a number of German car makers still shut
down in August for "holiday".
A friend of mine was doing consulting work for my
favourite German car company, and he showed me some
stats that indicated that cars manufactured in July
and September had something like 4 times the number of
problems as cars made in other months. The workers
were either "thinking too hard about the beach, or
were still drunk from the beach", he told me.
Coupled with the impact of new model year changes, the
moral is: Don't buy a new European car made in July or
Sept!
William
--- "Shawn J. Loseke" <sloseke@holly.colostate.edu>
wrote:
> It could still be possible that it was produced in
> September of 1968 but it
> would still be a 1969 model. It used to be very
> common practice for auto
> manufacturers in GB to shut down for the month of
> August for holiday then
> begin the next years model run in September so the
> new models would be at
> dealer lots for the beginning of the new model year
> (I found out Ford did this
> while researching the history of my Ford Cortina).
>
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