Japanes cars more reliable

[Troll]

BBC News - Japanese cars are 'most reliable' used car brands in UK

Is the Pope a catholic? Do bears tulip in the woods?

Seriously though, if German cars were better engineered, surely they'd be more reliable?
I suppose they look nicer though

This is a survey of used cars outside the manufacturers warranty ...wtf buys used cars?

Is a Swindon built Honda classed as Japanese or UK?

How is the survey carried out?
Not every make and model of car is included in our survey – only the cars that Warranty Direct has policies for,

The "most reliable" will also reflect the previous owners driving style (especially the incontinent, slipper wearing, retired Honda drivers brigade)

in short - it's all pretty much bollox

[sasguru]

This is a survey of used cars outside the manufacturers warranty ...wtf buys used cars?

Is a Swindon built Honda classed as Japanese or UK?



The "most reliable" will also reflect the previous owners driving style (especially the incontinent, slipper wearing, retired Honda drivers brigade)

in short - it's all pretty much bollox

What is bollux is your understanding of stats.
Whatever the methodological flaws of this study (and plenty of people do buy second hand cars - that's why used car supermarkets are flourishing), a quick google meta analysis shows that this finding is repeated across many countries for all ages of cars.
As for driving style, it's a well known fact that cars thrive better with high motorway miles than in stop-start city traffic with some demented old geezer crashing the gears and over-revving the engine, so your theoretical Honda would have been subjected to more strain.
Cretin.

[minestrone]

When Japanese firms started to manufacture outside the country they found that the products created with a non japanese workforce had much shorter life expectancy despite working to the same specification and having a similar defect rate.

[DodgyAgent]

The best, most reliable and surprisingly sporty car on the market is the Ford Mondeo. I do not know why you losers continue to indulge yourselves with irrelevant cars.

[Troll]

some demented old geezer crashing the gears and over-revving the engine,

I told you you should have bought the auto

[BolshieBastard]

BBC News - Japanese cars are 'most reliable' used car brands in UK

Is the Pope a catholic? Do bears tulip in the woods?

Seriously though, if German cars were better engineered, surely they'd be more reliable?
I suppose they look nicer though

here's a plan B: set up a design consultancy that helps Japanese cars look nicer and have superficially better materials in the cabin. Then spend a fortune on marketing.

Having said whoich some of them seem to have started that process already.

Er, my 147,000 mile 2002 E46 has never broken down. Its still on the original glow plugs, exhaust, turbo (despite the prophets of dooms saying it would blow at 80,000 miles), clutch and engine etc, etc!

I recently had to have the discs replaced at 137,000 miles. Inside is like new. Bodywork has no rust although there are stone chips on the front splitter and bonnet after all those miles. The original front tyres lasted 125,000 and although BMW dont make them, I think its testimony to the original set up of the car that they wore so little.

Have I got a special car? Dont think so. But there again, it gets serviced in accordance with the service intervals, the turbo is always spooled before switching off the engine and it doesnt get red lined on every gear change.

Oh, and its used supermarket diesel all its life.

[sasguru]

Er, my 147,000 mile 2002 E46 has never broken down. Its still on the original glow plugs, exhaust, turbo (despite the prophets of dooms saying it would blow at 80,000 miles), clutch and engine etc, etc!

I recently had to have the discs replaced at 137,000 miles. Inside is like new. Bodywork has no rust although there are stone chips on the front splitter and bonnet after all those miles. The original front tyres lasted 125,000 and although BMW dont make them, I think its testimony to the original set up of the car that they wore so little.

Have I got a special car? Dont think so. But there again, it gets serviced in accordance with the service intervals, the turbo is always spooled before switching off the engine and it doesnt get red lined on every gear change.

Oh, and its used supermarket diesel all its life.

That's why statistics as a discipline was invented - to give you the bigger picture.
HTH

[ZARDOZ]

The "most reliable" will also reflect the previous owners driving style (especially the incontinent, slipper wearing, retired Honda drivers brigade)

in short - it's all pretty much bollox

To be fair, the s2000 used to come out near the top and they are driven very hard indeed. Yet they had no engine failures in several years. If you google BMW faults, AUDI faults Mercedes faults the hits are numerous. Didn't the BMW 3 series come out top for faults recently?
http://www.rushlane.com/used-bmw-car...y-1240643.html

I've had both Japanese and German and my observation is that Japanese are usually mechanically more robust. There is not much difference in build quality, the only difference is interior materials, the germans spend a little more. That impresses most females and men who know little about cars. There is also a perception with the lower classes that buying German means you've made it.

[darmstadt]

I don't see many Japanese cars used as taxis here but plenty of Mercedes. A friend drives one, an old E200 which is just over 750,000km and still runs sweet. My BMW (albeit not quite) has just reached 4 years old and has 160,000km on it yet hasn't required any garage time and gets used quite heavily compared to most cars (lots of driving over 200km/h) but then again its serviced regularly and properly according to the manufacturers spec.

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[AtW]

I don't get the reasoning.

It's not the only thing you don't get sas - not just with cars but with many other things.