Very well said. Some people take offence too easily on here.
Gentlemen, the pattern I see on this site when a comment section goes on forever, is someone not believing one extreme or another - that is to say whether a certain brand or car is very good or very bad. The truth is all manufacturers make good and bad cars. Reliability can also vary from one car (even the same make and model) to the next, so the best thing to do is look for patterns, common faults, etc on the negative side of things, or general good reliability on the positive side of things, and make up your own mind which to buy.
Myself I have owned several American, European and Japanese cars. They are all just the same to be honest. From the 70/80s I had a Nissan Patrol - excellent vehicle. Simple and solid. By the 1990s I moved on to a Jeep Cherokee. Again, not the best but nowhere near as bad as people made them out to be. Then downsized to a Toyota Camry - an excellent car, boring but easily did 200,000 miles with no major issues. In more recent years I find the increasing costs of all cars to be too expensive to repair and too complex to fix.
I believe the future will be Elon Musk saving us with his electric cars (let's hope they all don't look like the Cybertruck though), and hybrids from other manufacturers, a mix of petrol, diesel and electric.
30th Nov 2019, 19:11
Very well said. Some people take offence too easily on here.
Gentlemen, the pattern I see on this site when a comment section goes on forever, is someone not believing one extreme or another - that is to say whether a certain brand or car is very good or very bad. The truth is all manufacturers make good and bad cars. Reliability can also vary from one car (even the same make and model) to the next, so the best thing to do is look for patterns, common faults, etc on the negative side of things, or general good reliability on the positive side of things, and make up your own mind which to buy.
Myself I have owned several American, European and Japanese cars. They are all just the same to be honest. From the 70/80s I had a Nissan Patrol - excellent vehicle. Simple and solid. By the 1990s I moved on to a Jeep Cherokee. Again, not the best but nowhere near as bad as people made them out to be. Then downsized to a Toyota Camry - an excellent car, boring but easily did 200,000 miles with no major issues. In more recent years I find the increasing costs of all cars to be too expensive to repair and too complex to fix.
I believe the future will be Elon Musk saving us with his electric cars (let's hope they all don't look like the Cybertruck though), and hybrids from other manufacturers, a mix of petrol, diesel and electric.