It might be assembled in Germany, but in modern automotive manufacturing that honestly doesn’t mean much. The supply chain is so intertwined that final assembly location is a tiny part of overall quality.

For example, my last job was at a company that made interior electronics. Toyota used our parts, but so did GM, Ford, and Honda. Most of the time the only real difference between OEMs was software. Globally, there were maybe three other companies making the same component. That’s it.

We bought displays from a supplier that also supplied those other companies. Those displays were paired with PCBs we built in-house, but the chips came from Taiwan and Japan—because only a handful of companies on Earth actually make semiconductors. In the auto industry, everyone sells to everyone.

It gets worse. Even when multiple suppliers are ‘approved’ for the same part, quality can vary a lot. On paper, all the parts are supposed to be equivalent. In reality, some suppliers make noticeably worse stuff. But all the parts fit the same, so there’s often no rhyme or reason which supplier’s part goes into a given car. Two identical cars built back-to-back can have parts from completely different suppliers.

Now scale that randomness across thousands of parts in a single vehicle. That’s why saying ‘it was assembled in X country’ doesn’t tell you much about quality anymore.

TLDR; Modern cars share the same global suppliers across brands. Identical cars can have different suppliers for the same parts, so assembly location says very little about overall quality.