370z vs 335i Coupe

mick

i used to own a bmw and the salesman who had sold it to me used to be a rolls royce salesman. every time he talked to me about the bmw, he would refer to it as 'a machine'
for example, 'how is your machine doing?'

chuckd05

thats funny... bmw workers/owners tend to put there cars on a pedistool and that's why there is a lot of judgements about bmw owners, but in reality it really most of them are nearly perfected cars.

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Shamu

Lots of flaws with BMWs. They are consistently on lowest reliability listings from all quality rating systems. They have some real design flaws too. My neighbor owns a very successful BMW repair shop. He's a millionaire! That wasn't from working on nearly perfected cars. LOL!

Just look at reliability/quality reports on Mini and BMW are consistently rated the worst.

Reliability Rankings for 2010 Car Brands (parent company in parentheses)

1. Scion (Toyota)
2. Honda
3. Toyota
4. Infiniti (Nissan)
5. Acura (Honda)
6. Mitsubishi
7. Lexus (Toyota)
8. Hyundai
9. Porsche
10. Mercury (Ford)
11. Saab
12. Subaru
13. Suzuki
14. Kia
15. Mazda
16. Ford
17. Nissan
18. Volvo
19. Buick (General Motors)
20. Lincoln (Ford)
21. Volkswagen
22. Pontiac (General Motors)
23. Mercedes-Benz
24. Audi (Volkswagen)
25. Chevrolet (General Motors)
26. BMW
27. Mini (BMW)
28. GMC (General Motors)
29. Saturn (General Motors) - defunct by 2011
30. Jeep (Chrysler)
31. Dodge (Chrysler)
32. Cadillac (General Motors)
33. Chrysler


Ratings | J.D. Power
Ratings | J.D. Power

Wont see BMW in top ten of these top cars.

Car Reliability Ratings 2010 ? The 10 Most Reliable Coupes and 2-Door Hatchbacks at Various Age Ranges

zrider

Nissan is pretty damn far on that list...not including infiniti of course..its pretty sad seeing some of the manufactures that are above nissan on that list

mick

i can't believe that scion builds the most reliable cars, even better then the pricey lexus from the same manufacturer? come on

Rui Z

Same wth Scions. All Scions are built in Japan. I don't know about Lexus tho. They seem lower than usual in the rankings.

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AlphaSnacks

You're looking at this the wrong way. Scion's line-up consists of only 3 cars - all of which are essentially the same car (albeit the TC being a little left of center). Naturally, their reliability ratings will be inflated. The same thing happened with Jaguar and Buick a few years ago - and now that both have added more vehicles to the line-up, they dropped again.