I guess it helps if you've owned a Japanese car before but yeah... I just love the styling and performance of Audis and BMW cars but always hear /read about reliability issues. Is this really true?
For Audi and BMW owners : How would you rate your car's reliability compared to Japanese cars?cafe racer
I had both and I like the German cars better. Simple is elegant, on the Japanese side is more of more gadgets is luxury. I am not the type of person that gets lost easy and needs a Nav system to go to the grocery store. One thing that I noticed is no too many people knows how to deal with Euro Imports so is hard to find a good tech.
Looking back about the 70s and 80s during the fuel crisis. The Japanese cars got their big break. The Euro cars were too expensive and left for the wealthy to buy. I remember in High School we moded the Honda CVCC (aka Cvic) since was a cheap car to obtain and was like a toy and cheap on gas. That gained popularity among my generation and learned how these cute little toys worked. Euro imports for their price, you could bought 3 Hondas, so they were left to Rich folks that does not give a dam on how that works and have the money to maintain and repair. Still Japanese cars were expensive to fix but at the mid range. US build suffered a heavy punch during those dark ages but their were cheaper to fix, Euro cars again, expensive as heck to fix and maintain. So the choice was obvious, most people looked at Japan for cars. So now you see what we have. But anybody that had the chance to drive a Datsun or a Mazda or a Toyota or a Mitsubishi they know they were not even closed to High Performance. You had to live during those days to understand what is out there now.
