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Originally Posted by stratofortress
Therein lies the difference between a Japanese car and a German car-- Japanese cars rarely break, and when they do they aren't catastrophic failures as seen so often on the German counterparts.
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LMAO. You're living in a fantasy land if you think this is true. I know for a fact that Toyota owners often tell the lie that their car has never had any issues, when in fact they've spent plenty of time in the shop. This lie builds on itself, because people buy cars based on which cars have the least self-reported issues, and confirmation bias perpetuates the same story-telling. Only recently has the Japanese car myth of reliability started to show cracks. I always wondered what people were whining about with German cars. My buddy's Acura was in the shop several times a year, while my Audis were never down for anything more than oil changes. My wife's Honda is a classic example of the fallacy of self-reporting. Even now, she tells people how great that Honda was. It wasn't great. It's reliability was WORSE than my German cars. Sure, you can claim small, non-scientific sample when looking at the data I present. But where is the objective data on reliability? Don't say CU or Edmunds. Both are self-reported. Non-scientific, and hugely prone to confirmation bias.