Moridin920 posted:

I've had German cars all my life and they are great up until the warranty expires and then literally every random bit and part you can think of breaks apart because they for some reason use lovely plastic connectors on EVERYTHING that turn brittle and crack apart.

Ditched the Audi after the coolant just all leaked out one day while driving normally on the freeway because whatever pipe/hose just finally gave out resulting in a bricked engine block. The Audi before that just randomly had the catcon explode, along with various other issues.

My dad's Mercedes had some fancy rear view mirror thing you adjusted via an electronic knob (cuz moving it by hand is not DEUTSCHE OVERENGINEERING) and when that broke they wanted $1200 to fix it. They're all expensive as gently caress to fix for no good reason bc as far as I can tell they use shithouse internal parts anyway.

German cars used to be good maybe but now they're just nice to lease for a couple years at best. They're always in the shop on some bullshit after that initial 1-2 years of being a good new car.