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> luxury brand

which goes to show that luxury branding is worthless, if it's all just marketing. I want quality components, quality builds and long lasting performance. I do find that stuff built in china can have all of these qualities, but chances are they don't (and it's deliberate, to reduce costs). Then selling the product at a luxury price to maximize profit.

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Definitely don’t agree with this at all. Go sit in a VW then sit in an Audi, or Toyota/Lexus, Hyundai/Genesis and tell me they are of the same quality. They are not.

Depends on how you define quality. A car that feels nice to sit on and drive may not be the most reliable way to get you from point A to point B consistently. The reliability of many (at least older) Toyota models is impressive, while German reliability has been mostly a myth in the 2000's.

They didn't say luxury is all marketing (ergo, the "if"); they said scoping your car as a luxury product while it's not devalues the meaning.

They then provided a specific example and pointed out that most products they've bought/researched from China (so, completely anecdotal) seem to be of lower quality.

I honestly don't know which ones of these are luxury or not. I was in a VW and a Lexas, and many Toyotas. They all felt... totally fine?

It’s not clear to me which brands you’re saying are the highest quality, can you elaborate?

Audi, Lexus, and Genesis are the luxury brands for their respective manufacturer. I think they’re saying that the cars sold under those brands are noticeably better quality than the VW, Toyota, and Hyundai branded cars.

Sit in an Audi, then sit in a Toyota Venza.

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