3rd Feb 2018, 19:39

It's averages - and each owner/reviewer's experience. For sure, there will always be cars of each example that actually don't give problems, or nothing enough to annoy an owner. It isn't necessarily INEVITABLE that a car with many bad reviews will breakdown, but there is a likelihood, possibly high. But there are enough cars out there that run well enough for people to keep buying the car or the brand. Notice that Citroen, Peugeot, even Fiat are still alive; you can't just say it's simply national pride, since many American or British car brands are now gone.