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While I haven't seen any conclusive evidence, I have heard and read rumblings about reliability/quality issues with some VW cars. And the public volume seems to be growing quite loud about quality issues at Mercedes. Our trustworthy and long-time mechanic who does many cars in our extended family and in our neighborhood typically says it costs signficantly more to service German cars than Asian, especially Japanese.
I daily drive an '89 Acura Legend sedan with over 120k miles, it's been in our family since new, and it still runs great. Last summer we got a new '04 Acura TSX for my wife and we both really like it a lot, no problems at all but only 10k miles so far. My other car is a '95 Toyota Supra twin turbo which I've owned for about 6yrs, I massaged it to well over 500hp (crank up the boost), I drive this car as often as possible and very hard, track it (road courses) a few times a year where I beat the crap out of it, and it seems to only need oil changes and more gas other than routine maintenance ...and many big fat tires.
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