Italian engineering looks good, even great, but the quality or detailed design....who knows?
The mechanism of the remote-controlled electrically-opening drive gates in our little block is made in Italy by a company that appears to dominate the UK market for this sort of thing, and works fine.
But for bigger, more complex machines? One evil tongue (not Italian) suggested this problem (great looks, poor engg) exists even in my field of certain pharmaceutical process machines, where one of the Seven Sisters is Italian. And a second, small competitor has some really bad design elements, though when you see their machines at exhibitions they look lovely.
(About the process machines I am only commenting about detailed design features - I have heard nothing negative about reliability. Till recently I was selling Canadian-made machines.)
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