One lousy experience with a
One lousy experience with a BMW suddenly means all European cars are awful? And how does BMW represent all European cars and how does Mazda represent all Japanese cars? I feel this article is written with some heavy bias.
Over the last 20 years I have owned two BMWs and a Mercedes and they have not been reliability nightmares. They started up, they brought me to work and back home and they were dependable cruisers for numerous road trips across the Midwest. In fact these cars have been more reliable than the low mileage RX450h my wife drives, which has needed two (!) transmission replacements, a new navigation system at only 40k miles and even developed sludge issues despite her following the manufacturer oil change intervals. Maybe I should I buy her a 2013 BMW X3...
It’s terrible that your experience with BMW was not great, but I am certainly loving my reliable and pleasurable BMW 5er. It drives like a dream and it’s never let me down, even though it’s been out of warranty for over five years. European cars are better than you may think and their reputation as “unreliable money pits” is in my experience uncalled for and simply not true.