[Hydrocket]

I work in the industry at the manufacturer level, and we consistently see German car components being needlessly complex for no apparent reason. "Just because we can" seems to be their reason. Not better, not smarter, not an elegant design solution...just overly complex. Which often times means prone to failure.

Every German car we've owned has been fairly unreliable, with silly designs and complex parts. And overpriced parts, too.

Luckily our 911 is (mostly) devoid of stuff like this, and we rather enjoy it. But it's likely the last German car we'll own, except for possibly a 996 TT which seem to be almost bomb proof. Otherwise, too much trouble. We even have a joking term among my car enthusiast friends for German cars: "FGC...F****** German Cars".

We've always had at least 2 Lexus in our fleet because they are supremely reliable, build quality peerless, are fast and fun (the models we drive anyways) and are cheap to maintain.