most quality products (not the little china made garbage) contains parts made in germany.
however there is one thing using it (think of egged, or a bosch washing mashine), or something that that you would pride yourself with (mercedes 500 sec, bmw 7 series).
I used to drive such a rubbish VW golf that it was almost an embarrassment to drive with it.
But to snub around with German made things, knowing that my granfather o"h was in Auschwitz from '39-'45 (!) or that my mother (who was born after the war, had close to 20 aunties and uncles before WW2, so if they would all have an average of 5 kids, she should have had about 100 first cousins), has only 1 cousin who lost her mind because of the war...
[this is only my mothers part of the family...]
You are allowed to buy and drive whatever you like, but if you don't at least understand the issue that some people have here, then you might want to check out you genealogy...
Besides china, I think almost every country has slaughtered us along the path of history.
Although germans do a lot of efforts to try to make up for it (as opposed to ukranians and poles, slovaks, and kroats, who are born rabid anti Semites) it is still germany who started it all .
concerning the taxis and buses in Israel, I've heard that they got especially good rates.