Comments on: Where Does That Car Come From? https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/where-does-that-car-come-from/ News and views about cars in Australia Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:05:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.5 By: Rick https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/where-does-that-car-come-from/#comment-1090 Sat, 29 May 2010 08:13:11 +0000 http://blog.privatefleet.com.au/?p=249#comment-1090 Here’s an interesting one for you.

I used to have a BMW 318i (E46) which had a VIN starting with WBAA.
Now, according to the results of your survey, WA-WO means Germany and AA-AH means South Africa.

RedBook says that such vehicles brought into Australia came from South Africa.

More here:

http://redbook.com.au/used-cars/details.aspx?R=50325&__Qpb=true&Cr=1&__Ns=p_Make_String|0||p_ClassificationType_String|0||p_Family_String|0||p_Year_String|1||p_SequenceNum_Int32|0&__N=2994%204294964888%204294843858%204294965872&silo=1300&seot=1&__Nne=15&trecs=4&__sid=128E53F349A7)

Yet strcitly speaking if you go by the results of your survey, the first two letters of the VIN indicate it was supposedly made in Germany.

Someone’s wrong somewhere…..

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By: Richard https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/where-does-that-car-come-from/#comment-1015 Thu, 13 May 2010 19:48:08 +0000 http://blog.privatefleet.com.au/?p=249#comment-1015 Mel, according to the information that we’ve been given the Citroen C4 is made in both France and Turkey, which gives even more strength to the actual name of the country of manufacture being openly declared.

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By: Pete https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/where-does-that-car-come-from/#comment-1011 Thu, 13 May 2010 05:14:33 +0000 http://blog.privatefleet.com.au/?p=249#comment-1011 Declariing the country of origin should be mandatory. quality control do varies widely from country to country, and it is very often, the ‘mother’ country that produces the best product. Take a look at Toyota… Most of its recalled vehicles seemed to come from USA. and also looking up customer satisfaction reports like JD Edwards, What! car surveys, Japanese cars produced in US and UK do not rate as highly as cars from Japan.
So, yes, if I know the merc/bmw model i am buying won’t be made in Germany, I won’t buy one.

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By: Mel https://www.privatefleet.com.au/blog/home/where-does-that-car-come-from/#comment-1010 Thu, 13 May 2010 03:06:45 +0000 http://blog.privatefleet.com.au/?p=249#comment-1010 Oops, I mean the Citroen C4, not the Megane.

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