Nothing will last in New England![]()
Yeah you have to have a garage in new england....the weather will eat your car alive.
Nothing will last in New England![]()
I'm amazed that so many people feel American made cars are good quality. My Ranger and Saturn both had major problems at under 50k.
My Civic has been through the ringer and has had no major issues at all.
VW's quality has shot back up. For awhile there it was the Mexican made cars that had the most problems. Mercedes in the last two years has also gotten things under control.
Unfortunately, most of us can't afford to buy 5 different cars from each available company to test their reliability.Hey, how about buying at least 5 vehicles from the brand to see if there crap.
I would say japanese or american and definitely not german as much as I like german cars.
Nippon, definitely.
too bad they don't really have "soul." =\
But, I didn't take my dads 330xi and saying BMW's are crap because the water pump blew below 50K and the pulley was worn out at 70K miles. If you look at my sig below you see we ordered a 2007 BMW 335xi. I am not labeling Toyota as crap because my dads 80's Corolla blew a manifold at 20K.
Yeah, they should be on the bottom half of the list, if not the bottom.
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Mercedes and Porsche I don't really know. You see a lot of old mercedes so I suppose they are reliable, or at least used to be. Porsches are sports cars, so they don't really count with reliability.
Are Acuras as good as their reputation with Consumer reports and the like? I have been trying to get my dad to buy a TL for a while now, but he just won't give in.
With regards to your comments about the Suburban, are you sure that your luck in the accident didn't have to do with your Suburban outweighing the Subaru by almost a ton?![]()
There's no mention of Australia's build quality... But that's probably fair enough. We're getting better but we're still no match for the Japanese.
If you had 2 problems with the BMW, then why did you rate them 2nd on your list, and rate Japan 3rd?
i have no idea who is voting for german. Are they the best fit and finish in general- I would agree to that. Do they have the best performance overall, in general, probably. I don't see where people see that they have good reliability.
Lets take Audi, VW, Porchse Mercedes, and BMW. My mom used to have an A4 2 cars ago (1996 I believe). I remember it had some big Quattro issue. I said before, pretty much everyone that I know that owns a VW has sold it because of reliability issues. When my mom was B****** at the VW dealer at all the repairs that had to be done to her car, the service manager and another employee admitted themselves that they didn't drive VW's because they weren't reliable enough- I think one drive a maxima and the other a camry or a corolla. They said that BMW's were even worse with reliability and from what i hear X5's fall apart after 30,000 miles.
Mercedes and Porsche I don't really know. You see a lot of old mercedes so I suppose they are reliable, or at least used to be. Porsches are sports cars, so they don't really count with reliability.
Yep, base quality of the whole brand on one bad car. Hey, how about buying at least 5 vehicles from the brand to see if there crap....I am not labeling Toyota as crap because my dads 80's Corolla blew a manifold at 20K. Things happen. Just don't base the brands quality on one bad product.
i have no idea who is voting for german. Are they the best fit and finish in general- I would agree to that. Do they have the best performance overall, in general, probably. I don't see where people see that they have good reliability.
My mom used to have an A4 2 cars ago (1996 I believe). I remember it had some big Quattro issue.
Yes, but for every bad Toyota, how many bad Chevys are there? My uncles used to buy Chevys in the 80s, but they're not only not as reliable, they're also ugly. I also hate most of the new cars from GM. Maybe I just don't care for large bulky looking cars.
I've seen some old Chevys but I see many more old Toyotas and Hondas on the roads around here. All of our Toyotas have lasted at least 10 years or 100k without issues. We only got rid of the first Camery, because some idiot smashed it up in a hit and run. =/
Matter of taste, I guess. With the exception of the third picture, I'd say none of those cars has any distinctive style. They're very safe, staid designs that bear quite a similarity to each other.Who says Japanese cars don't have style?...