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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
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Originally Posted by 10"
I think most people tend to confuse reliability with maintenance.
German cars require more maintenance. More replacement of parts at shorter intervals. Pretty typical of more high performance parts. A lot of ordinary Japanese and American cars are not trying to be performance oriented; so their parts last longer and require less maintenance and/or replacement.
That being said I do think BMW for example have frequently dropped the ball on things like water pumps, fuel pumps, etc.
The fact is modern cars on the whole are fairly reliable...german cars are no exception.
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Nah. Poor engineering. Parts are too complicated to be manufactured at a competitive economic cost. Mazda makes the performance oriented Miata, those things never break. |
My NB Miata died at 23k miles. Was technically outside of the bad #4 bearing issue, but that's what spun. Plenty of Issues with my later Mazda3, including it being totaled after a minor accident where I was stopped. It took a 30 foot drop to kill my GTI and a telephone pole to kill our X1.