ugly, fragile, built-to-budget, german concrete salesman company cars
really bland and boring but distinctly sharp and tidy german styling, they never look completely terrible but they're never all that nice, either. being germans perhaps they feel the need to insert their weird styling cues into things even if they don't look right, because the awkward looks that result are distinctive and memorable.
being that the german car industry survives mostly on the tradition of "company cars" they are also engineered with specific MTBF considerations for being owned under lease which makes them unreliable at high mileages. things will fail, and they will fail on purpose, and no, you can't fix them because that's not how it was designed.
it's a very anti-customer attitude and it remarks perhaps they don't really care about the performance of the cars either, only the appearance of such.
