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Originally Posted by speeder
The other thing, (and this should be obvious), is that companies like Toyota, Honda and the newer Korean makes have a mission philosophy built around making the most dependable and low maintenance vehicles possible. They have excellent engineering staffs tasked with that mission and they succeed.
German high end luxury and sports cars are designed and built with a completely different goal. Performance is everything and if that means expensive brake pads that last 8k miles, so be it. This gets even more pronounced on the elite models like BMW M-cars and AMGs but you get the picture.
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What he said, Your run of the mill Japanese/Korean automobile main selling point is reliability, add to that they are produced by the hundreds of thousands so parts are abundant and cheap.
High performance cars are lower production and thus parts may not be as easy to find, supply and demand. Add to that in high performance cars weight is the enemy so parts may not be so robust.
Just IMHO of course...