[Chaplin]

Anything can turn out to be a piece of junk. A car is only as good as the skill of the person that built it. That being said, certain products are inherently better designed/constructed than others and, even if assembled by the same person, one would last longer or hold up better. For example, if the same person assembled a Yugo and a Mercedes and did an expert job assembling both, the Yugo would still be crap (sorry if anyone owns a Yugo- I drove a brand new one once- it had 250 miles on it- and the window crank and gear shift both came off in my hands). Conversely, it is also true that if that same person assembled a Yugo and a Mercdes and built them in a half-a$$ed, shoddy manner, they'd both be crap, but the Mercedes would probably still be worth more because it is inherently more valuable and someone would be willing to inject the $$ to fix it .
I don't know if that helps any.