ORIGINAL: deranged
I would go so far to say that nearly all European brands have far more quality and reliability issues than the domestics. As stated above they are status symbols that say I've "made it". Yeah made it onto the back of a flatbed hauler headed for repair. We have a way to go to catch the Japanese but their cars have issues as well that mostly go unreported because they are termed as maintenance and not repairs
Exactly! Look at what is listed in the manual and you'll see why they get such high ratings. You replace just about everything.