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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
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That's personal preference tbh. I'd pick a shit box I can fix in an evening if it ever needs it to a finicky machine that requires years of antiquated experience to work on. I never wanna touch a mechanical fuel injector or have to take half the car apart to change a pulley.
Then again I own a modern Honda with a turbo snaked through the engine bay.
I've had far more joy driving a Merc than the shitbox Corolla that got to 100k and threw it's piston rings. I went back to the dealer to ask them if it's normal to top up the oil in between services. They looked me straight in the eye and said it normally consumes 1litre every 6k. It failed a short time later. This was after I spent weeks fixing a water leak into the cabin.
The reliability of Toyota and many Japanese brands is inflated by these type of shenanigans.