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Originally Posted by TheMidnightNarwhal
See IMO that's the thing. Yeah it's 17 years old but milleage still does something for reliability IMO.
If you compare a 2002 BMW it won't have the same amount of miles.
A BMW with 200k miles to a Ferrari with 200k miles of those years I'm pretty sure overall the BMW would have been much more reliable.
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1) Possibly, of course it would depend on which BMW. Compared to a 2002 7 series? I would probably say that the Ferrari would be more reliable, lol. Compared to a 323i? The BMW would probably win.
2) I also don't think that the Ferrari would much less reliable. My experience has shown that exotics don't typically have 'reliability' issues so much as they have unusually frequent maintenance requirements. This would be expected, since the components are specifically designed for performance over all other things, including longevity.
3) I don't think it is unfair to say that Italian cars, by and large, are somewhat less reliable than Honda, Toyota, et al. To say they are downright unreliable, though, I think is a common misnomer.