... Most & Least Reliable Cars In America

This article has nothing to do with long term reliability and is more a survey of manufacture quality when it comes to nit-picking wealthy people with mostly silly complaints about their brand new car. But zerohedge has always been annoying like that...

I'd rather see cars rated by user repair-ability, cost of spare parts and vehicle reliability after the first decade. If that was the case the outrageous repair costs for BMW would take it from Top 3 to last.

As for Mercedes, they have fallen so for... Literally transformed into a junk American car but with the luxury of price gouging for people who do repair work on them.

 

when i think reliability, i think of the car getting me to where i want to go when i want to go.

with todays electronics, there are too many things to rate, and overall, you don't get the sense of basic reliability.
so i pay no attention to these surveys

 

When I think reliability I think how good of a car it will be once it's 20 years old.... Or as someone once explained to me that best way to pick a used car model to buy is look around for the oldest cars you most commonly see on the road.

 

LOL, no 20 year old cars around here to count. 10 year old maybe, like mine. hardly any gen 2 prius left

 

Where do your Gen II Priuses go? Ours mostly go to the South Pacific - in places like Fiji, pretty much every taxi is a formerly-Australian Prius or a formerly-Japanese Prius.

 

i have no idea if they get shipped out, or just sold out of the metro boston area. too much affluence (or ignorance) around here to drive older cars.

 

In inner Sydney, where I spend most of the time, it's kind of similar. But in Broken Hill, where I also spend a lot of time, there are a lot of older cars.

One thing that's interesting relates to what @PriusCamper says -

I'll put aside the Series 70 LandCruisers that dominate the region: it's a big, empty area and a lot of people need something indestructible that can travel on dirt roads - or no roads - hundreds of kms from the nearest person.

In town, the most common older cars are ones that, when they came out, were notorious for having lots of minor niggles. Most common are Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores - the (now extinct) Australian-made Ford and GM large sedans. They were badly-made: they'd have squeaks and rattles, and electronic components would regularly fail. And the paint - even though they were made in Australia for the Australian market - couldn't cope with Australian sun, so they're all peeling now. But they had indestructible, very low-tech engines (a 4.0 straight six in the Falcon and a variety of V6s and V8s in the Commodore, with all but the sportiest naturally aspirated. They suck fuel like 747s, but they don't break, ever. The ones that aren't still being driven around Australia are in South Pacific islands.