It's nice to know it's not just us...

Or maybe..it's not that nice to know. It would appear China is taking over the world as the major manufacturer of all things made. The United States seems to be heavily invested in Products made in China, everything from clothes and toys to furniture and Auto parts. But I was surprised Germany is going that way. I can see the lesser quality things in the world being sublet ted out to Asia,  but when a High line vehicle goes that way it's a bit of a shocker. We have long now been dealing with BMW clothing made in China, people look at it and turn their noses up in disgust, but now China has reached into the cars themselves. We ordered two ignition coils from BMW the other for a customer. The parts arrived, the customer came down to pick them up and was not happy to find out that the parts say "Made in China" on them. The original coils had stainless clips on the side, the Chinese coils have tin clips.

It makes me wonder, people pick on Harley because they use Japanese parts inside the engine, will BMW Motorad be any different? With Chinese coils on the cars, how long it be before Chinese parts find their way onto BMW motorcycles?