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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patudo" data-source="post: 3612631" data-attributes="member: 139299">There really is nothing us Brits love better than having a good moan eh?  Looking at another piece of fine German engineering: Porsche 911 Carrera - price in 1984 £22,357; price today "from £95,975" (for Carrera GTS - add various options and the price very quickly increases) - 4.3x increase. Zeiss "alpha" binocular - price in 1984 @£360 (for Dialyt 10x40BGAT); price today (for SF 10x42) c.£1,900 - 4.2x increase.  That's almost exactly the same.  And alpha binoculars - like German sports cars - are "want" rather than "need" items.  No one needs a 911 to get from point A to point B, and hardly any of us truly need a SF or similar product to go birding.</blockquote>