It always seems that the Japenes take top honors for building the most reliable cars, and they do, so it's a just reward that they recieve the accolades from various automotive journals. Here though, we're German car fans, and believe you me there would be nothing I'd like than to see CR(most def. not the automotive bible, but has a lot of cred) recommend an MB or two, or JD power awarded, that may be the day, but it's most definately not out of reach. The reason why I created this thread was to get to the heart of the matter and pose the question to you guys, what do you think it will take other than tighter quality controls to make German cars the best in their industry? Not only that, but do you think they will ever top the Japenese for building records that don't scratch?