Here’s how the major car brands stack up in terms of reliability, according to Consumer Reports: Lexus Toyota Mazda Subaru Kia Infiniti Audi BMW Mini Hyundai Porsche Genesis Acura Nissan Honda Volkswagen Mercedes-Benz Ford Buick Lincoln Audi, BMW, Mini, Porsche, Volkswagen and Mercedes all have better reliability than any US cars. So if EU cars are crap, what are US cars then? https://forbes.com/sites/jimgorzela...east-reliable-rides-on-the-road/#2c4d8ce25525
if the difference between top and bottom on that list is a single 0.00000000000000001 in reliability does it really matter?
Another way to look at it is here: https://www.consumerreports.org/car-maintenance/the-cost-of-car-ownership/ Own a German car and you'll be shelling out for repairs.
Crappier. I suprised to see toyota have a higher ranking than Honda based on personal experience and toyota’s high profile automotive issues in the news. It looks like American automotive brands have declined in relative ranking to the European brands over the years. Planned obsolescence is apparently the reason for these low scores. Stupid stuff like 40 years of prematurely failing transmissions, head gaskets failing at 150,000 miles or even less, and hard to diagnose electrical problems. However, even with these, the average age of vehicles in the US has been on the rise for a decade or so: https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-cars-and-trucks-are-getting-older-2018-8 Something about the American automobile business model is not working. I wonder what (MPS rolls eyes) the issues could be? Granted, part of the issue is Demographics, but most is the weak value proposition of American made vehicles. Maybe there are opportunities in bailing wire and duct tape stocks. Certaintly in retail auto parts stores, anyway.
I drive/drove German cars for over 2 million kilometers. 1x Audi, 2x BMW and 3x Mercedes. And for my wife 3x Volkswagen Golf and 1 x Mini Cooper. I know people who spent more money on smoking or drugs then my yearly maintenance for a Mercedes. That report is pure nonsense. Watch this report and compare it with yours. Results are completelly different. https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/the-most-and-least-expensive-cars-to-maintain-by-maddy-martin In this report 8 out of 20 cars are US cars as most expensive: https://www.gobankingrates.com/saving-money/car/most-expensive-cars-to-maintain/#0 A huge factor is resale value after X years. That value can compensate for the entire maintenance cost of the car.
Worst depreciating cars (3Y term). Worst residual value (leases): BMW 5 Series - 52.6 percent Volkswagen Passat - 50.7 percent Mercedes-Benz E-Class - 49.9 percent BMW 3 Series - 49.8 percent Ford Taurus - 49.7 percent Chrysler 200 - 48.4 percent Volkswagen Jetta - 48.1 percent Audi A3 - 47.9 percent Cadillac SRX - 47.2 percent Buick Enclave - 46.8 percent https://www.autotrader.com/car-info/these-are-fastest-depreciating-cars-2018-281474979862017
Two vids, with few good points, tho they haven't mentioned, that TSLA has by far, the largest ammount of data, on autonomous vehichles ( how valuable is that, if it is at all ? ), their entry into insurance business & tesla autonomous taxi ( no steering wheel, no pwdlas etc, less cost per vehicle ) Real Vision channel, imo, is pushing hard on gold recently, some ,, reviews / interviews " looks like 10 mins long, pre-payid adds, which makes it less credible and trustworthy, for me.
Honda got over complicated loads of issues on the 2007 Civics the fancy space ship looking 1's and Jazz's don't hold out much better, before that Toyota and Honda very similar. 18year old Toyota Celica currently, happy with both reports. Tesla won't fail, it'll just remain an expensive luxury car, like Apple phones. It's not like he can't sink a few Bil into it and bail it out not like he's going to miss it.