FWIU most american cars are given bigger engines than the european equivalent but the expectation is that you will only use 100% throttle on american cars on rare occasions like merging or passing. If you take a typical american car and go pedal to the metal all day you are going to kill the engine. Meanwhile in europe the avg car is given a smaller engine but the bonus is its designed to be grabbed by the scruff of the neck and manhandled all day like a taxi. For example, you can flatfoot a vw polo tdi all day with no issues. The diesels german auto makers put in their small commuter cars can handle it. The petrol cars they sell in europe are a little bit more fragile but they are still more robust and capable of being floored all day than the equivalent american car. I think it would be more fun to have a low HP american car that you could manhandle all day without it being harmful to the engine.
Ive heard James May make a similar argument about the fun of small underpowered european hatchbacks on original top gear uk.
>european anything> robustlol
>>29098351Varies by model but overall you gotta remember cars are built today with planned obsolescence so that ppl have to keep buying new cars. It sucks, but it is what it is. The dream is that one day a car company will be created that used the 1980s MB 190d engine and adds modern tech to it to make it even better.
>>29098347America got the iron duke, which is basically the 'naturally aspirated diesel' experience for the European.
>>29098541you hit the gas, and the car wrings out to 4000 RPM going no faster than if you had just let it roll down the hill.
>>29098347america has wide as fuck very straight roads so that type of car isn't as fun as it can be
>>29098681America does have alot of straight highways but they are not as straight as the autobahns in deutschland and the autobahns are mostly derestricted meaning you can drive 200mph if you want.
>>29098351Why is toyota beating lexus? Its the same fucking car
>>29098839Maybe because Lexus parts and service are more expensive so people are less likely to shell out all the way to 250k miles
>>29098852Makes sense. Its also kind of crazy toyota almost doubles honda. Honda motorcycles are supposed to last forever so idk why their cars dont last forever too.
>>29098351Also i find this list suspicious. Subaru has a great long term reliability reputation and its trailing US auto manufacturer ls in this list. I have a 2005 chevy tahoe and the thing fell apart like a nigerian skyscraper.
>>29098839Because the stats aren't taking society into account.The average person buying a car and later getting rid of it will never get it to 250K miles. The car, for multiple reasons, will cycle into either sitting still or being lightly driven.There are car brands where the car just isn't driven very much, regardless of its quality. 250K miles is a pretty high bar to reach, basically the only cars that reach that are the ones where it has one owner who really just drives that one car.
>>29098864Anon, you're missing the forest for the trees.It isn't a chart showing which cars break down. It's a chart showing how many car owners drive their car to the 250K point. That's all. It's entirely possible that half of those brands have shitloads of 200K mile cars sitting in used car lots that just don't reach 250K cause nobody drives them anymore.It's not a chart showing which cars are ruined after a while. Just which ones have owners that have bothered to prove that their car wasn't ruined after a while.
