I never mistook anything and that was a genuine question. You answered it so thanks for that.
I'm just trying to understand how you ran into that much trouble with those brands you mentioned above. You tend to buy cars in good shape and decent mileage and you tend to do your research about them. Unless you are really modifying them or pushing them hard on the track and such, how do you get into that much unreliability esp when you don't keep the cars for few years? Trying to understand that was the intent of my question.
Every car has problems. Specific years and models in every brand have issues that people have reported over the years. I don't disagree with that. But I don't think it makes sense calling entire brands bad based on few examples you have had (or heard second hand).
My brother has a 2003 Mercedes E500. Close to 130k miles. He got it used a few years ago and it's been a great car just like @Mike_H experience with his Audi. All he has done is just typical maintainence. People will say that entire generation is horrible and everything constantly breaks. But that has not been our experience. But it's insufficient data for me to say that entire era of Mercedes is good. All I can say is this example has been trouble free.
If you are making the point that modern cars are complicated and have the potential for more electronics related issues, there may be something there. But that's a different topic altogether.
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