I'm not a huge believer that the country of manufacture has a big difference with quality of the object. I own a VW TDI car and some members of tdiclub.com (the forums for said cars) claim that the German made ones are better than the ones made elsewhere. My wife's Jetta Wagon TDI is German and my Golf was made in Brazil and my older Jetta was made in Mexico. The Jetta Wagon has had the most rattles and other little annoyances.
Right, my sister year 2000 German Made Golf has been a nightmare. The airflow sensor has broken down constantly and the integrated alarm has untracable flaw, or at least none of the dealers have been able or willing to trace it deep enough. There were some other problems too. The most sorry purchase.
For the price of something like the 28-70/4 AL I expect that they were largely built by machine.
Or they simply used cheap cement to keep the cost down.
Regards, Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
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