What do you think of German engineering

[creepinshadow24/7]

Feel free to shout out what you think about it. Don't compare it to other countries, otherwise it'll be locked.

you can say things like:
I like it


or negatively:

I hate german engineering, the stuff they do is ugly.



(i'm just testing the reputation)

[Harrod200]

Efficiency; Excellent
Reliability; Excellent
Aesthetics; Gawd awful.

[Teek]

Originally Posted by Harrod200

Efficiency; Excellent
Reliability; Excellent
Aesthetics; Gawd awful.

that or :
Efficiency; Excellent
Reliability; awful.
Aesthetics; Excellent

[1rankman]

i rather it looked like crap then didnt work at all

[PFunk]

One word: Practical.

Leopard tanks are made so that if parts of the engine malfunction you can just pull out a big hunk of it, replace it with another hunk, and while the tank is back rolling around you can fix the buggered up bits on a work bench.

Another word(s): far seeing.

Whether you want to talk about the design for the world's first assault rifle that is still being produced today (by proxy in the AK) or the Machinegun which is still in service with the Deutsches Heer more than 60 years later, you can be sure that Germans have an eye for design.

A last word: Modern

Nearly everything that drove the technological boom of the post WW2 era was stolen from Germany in the form of documents, designs, models, or scientists.

Those Germans eh?

[markonymous]

reliable
nice looking(yes IMO it is)
efficient

[gclark03]

The Nazis may have been Nazis, but they did have the best civil and military engineering the world had ever known (for a time). Really, given the chances and the technology they had, they could have conquered Europe pretty easily if it wasn't for their bad leadership.

Anyway, this is what I think of German engineering (from 1900 on):
Reliability: Insane
Efficiency: Excellent
Aesthetics: depends on the product, usually minimalist

[Top_Cat_AxJnAt]

I got the impression that US designers were having a hand is designing the exterior of certain German Cars, hence subtly resulting in their exteriors having a more similarities to US cars than they did 10 years ago. Thus making them looking bludy ugly.

So if i see any apparently "German designs" that look bad, i know whos to blame, and it aint the Germans!

[TY2D2]

German Engineering: Not up to par with TY2-Engineering.


*Ties shoe to corndog*

"At last!"

[Hotrod525]

Originally Posted by CNews

Canada has borrowed 20 Leopard 2A6M CAN from the German Army for use in combat operations in Afghanistan. In an assault on 2 November, 2007, a Leo 2A6M hit an IED and survived without casualties: "My crew stumbled upon an (improvised explosive device) and made history as the first (crew) to test the (Leopard 2A6)M-packet. It worked as it should." wrote a Canadian officer in an email to German defence officials. Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff General Rick Hiller denied reports that a Leopard II tank that was struck by an IED was a write-off, insisting that the tank has been repaired and is once again in use.

German have made progress medicine, missile, and produce the best tank in the world since 1939...