Nothing isn't needlessly complicated and expensive to fix anymore. Unless you live in America where you have good, alternative parts available cheap. If you can buy a Japanese car new, they never break down. But if you buy them used from 8 years old onwards, it can be surprising how much brand new original parts cost, and access to those components is no less labour-intensive than German cars. Try reaching into bolts to undo without the hands of a midget, or taking off panels with clips on a Japanese car without actually breaking them. Again: Japanese cars are reliable. Maybe their parts are built better. But they are no less complicated and use pretty much the same principles as any European car. Even the French and Italian cars are surprisingly conventional vs. an equivalent Japanese.
3rd Feb 2018, 19:35
Nothing isn't needlessly complicated and expensive to fix anymore. Unless you live in America where you have good, alternative parts available cheap. If you can buy a Japanese car new, they never break down. But if you buy them used from 8 years old onwards, it can be surprising how much brand new original parts cost, and access to those components is no less labour-intensive than German cars. Try reaching into bolts to undo without the hands of a midget, or taking off panels with clips on a Japanese car without actually breaking them. Again: Japanese cars are reliable. Maybe their parts are built better. But they are no less complicated and use pretty much the same principles as any European car. Even the French and Italian cars are surprisingly conventional vs. an equivalent Japanese.