Having owned several Japanese cars and several non Japanese cars, I would have to say that the Japanese made cars win hands down every time in terms of reliability. From the moment you open your automatic garage doors and get out onto the fast lane, you know that the car will be reliable and as steady as a rock.
In fact, I have now owned three types of one Japanese model over the last few years and I will probably buy one again when I next replace it. In all the years I have owned them, they have never once broken down and the only time they have seen the inside of a garage – apart from servicing – is when somebody bumped me.
They literally run for years and I replaced each one, not because it was worn out, but because I fancied the newer model. I have every confidence that the Japanese car I am running now will still be running perfectly in another twenty years.
When I compare these cars to some of the other horrors I have owned, I can recall breaking down on several occasions in non Japanese cars and I never really had confidence that I would make it from A to B.
Now I take my car to the south of France and back, knowing that my RAC insurance is useless as I will never need it.
