All the same, the suspicion is growing that Germany's carmakers are caught the wrong side of two huge coming shifts in demand towards fuel-efficient "sensible motoring", especially in the developed world; and towards "cheap and cheerful" cars, especially in Asia.Logan's runBegin with the cheap and cheerful side of it.
Both countries have emerging middle classes, and increasing availability of cheap and cheerful cars.
Most of my dolls are cheap and cheerful, from car boot sales, charity shops and eBay.
UNTIL recently the biannual Beijing motor show was a bit of a backwater, a place where Chinese makers displayed their cheap but not very cheerful little cars and where the supposedly new offerings from the joint-venture manufacturers were in fact warmed-up Buicks and VWs from a previous generation.
In a week of cheerful, topless motoring (the car, not me), I spotted a couple of things about the 207 that, if not out-and-out design faults, were at the very least design drawbacks.
As she slowly made her way out of the cafe car, a cheerful boy, 8 or so years old, stopped her and asked, "Excuse me, is that sushi?" Without skipping a beat, she replied in a thick New York accent: "No, dear, it's cheese.
With multiple incidents at Turn 1 and then the deployment of a safety car, it was cheerful chaos.
The city has fallen for them, harder than ever, with the cheerful subtlety of a clanging cable car.
I tried my best to look cheerful as I stepped out of the car but felt physically ill.
Her fascination with sex leads her to interrogate the cheerful whore, who has got into the car at night believing her to be a male punter.
