“To date, Nasa have filed 6,509 patents.”
“To get to the A6, Audi have filed 9,621 patents”.
So when you buy an Audi you’re not paying for engineering or qualIty. You’re paying for expensive patent lawyers.
Thanks for the warning.
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October 13th, 2006 at 10:39 am
How can you file nearly 10,000 patents for a car? It’s smacks of ‘because we can and we like to tell you how clever we are’. I used to have Audi’s as company cars and then when it was my own money bought VW. Can’t say 10,000 patents on wiper arcs or whatever is going to make me go back.
What’s the translation of the vorsprung thing? We’re all a bunch of geeky knobbers with a marketing department?
October 15th, 2006 at 10:56 am
It’s suppsed to say “Backwards through Law”.
I’m prepared to stand corrected.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then the designers of the Ford Focus must be proud of the new Audi TT.