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asmi:

--- Quote from: BillyO on October 31, 2023, 11:25:50 pm ---Out of interest sake, what in this class would you put on top?

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About 10 years ago I would put Toyota/Lexus on the top. But then I worked at Toyota plants for almost 8 years - so now I'm not sure :-DD I got Audi, so I'm not very familiar with mass-market segment, but I do know quite a few people who highly praise their Hundai/Kia/Honda, so they must be pretty good :-//
BillyO:

--- Quote from: asmi on October 31, 2023, 11:34:34 pm ---About 10 years ago I would put Toyota/Lexus on the top.

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Well, like Oscilloscopes it is very class dependent.  Certainly anyone would agree that Lexus are better than Acura but you pay for that.

Too bad about the Audi.  I had an A6 sedan back in 2008 bought new.  It was a considerable disappointment.  Fancy thing.  Marginally better than my boss' BMW, but still unreliable, over-priced and had a crap re-sale value which I found out 2 years later and was just a money pit to maintain.  Since I just needed a a vehicle I could rely on to get me to work and back and do some weekend chores I sold it at a huge loss and replaced it with a Honda Ridgeline.  That Honda is still in the family (gave it to my son) has 385,000 kM on it, still runs like a top and has never failed to do it's job.  I replaced that with a Toyota Tacoma .. still remains to see if that was a good move.

Enjoy your Audi.
asmi:

--- Quote from: BillyO on October 31, 2023, 11:48:01 pm ---Too bad about the Audi.  I had an A6 sedan back in 2008 bought new.  It was a considerable disappointment.  Fancy thing.  Marginally better than my boss' BMW, but still unreliable, over-priced and had a crap re-sale value which I found out 2 years later and was just a money pit to maintain.  Since I just needed a a vehicle I could rely on to get me to work and back and do some weekend chores I sold it at a huge loss and replaced it with a Honda Ridgeline.  That Honda is still in the family (gave it to my son) has 385,000 kM on it, still runs like a top and has never failed to do it's job.  I replaced that with a Toyota Tacoma .. still remains to see if that was a good move.

Enjoy your Audi.

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I'm now in my second SQ5 (previous one was MY2016, current one is MY2021), and with both I had zero issues. I'm actually considering keeping my current one until the wheels fall off because I kind of like it, and more modern ones don't really have anything exciting enough to upgrade. Not to mention that I got my 2021 for 0% financing which now is a pipe dream :scared:
mawyatt:
We have an Audi A4 from ~2008, my youngest daughter's car. It's been a total POS, one of the worst vehicles we've ever owned, constantly something not working. Audi Dealer and Audi USA were also about as bad an experience as we've had.

Best,
Veteran68:
So the car thing is a perfect example of how everyone's experiences -- anecdotal such as they are -- can differ at an individual level.

Toyota: I have a 2001 Toyota Sequoia SUV with 293K miles on it. It's beat to hell now but still runs great. I'd never regret owning another, but when I was in the market for a new one a couple years ago, what I wanted could not be found, and the closest matches were selling for well above MSRP. Which is just a hard no for me. I've never paid sticker for a car and I just can't do it.

Audi: When I couldn't get a new Toyota/Lexus that I wanted for what I considered a reasonable price, I decided if I was going to spend the $$ that I'd splurge on a 2021 Q5 Prestige. I'd been looking at them for years with some envy, and my boss had one. I love it so far! No issues whatsoever, but it's only 2 years old with less than 30K miles, and still under warranty. If it starts to get flaky, I'll unload it, but so far it's been great and the level of customer service from the dealer is light years beyond what I've gotten with any other dealer. And I thought I was happy with my Toyota dealer. But my Audi dealer treats me like royalty, and it's not like I spent 6 figures on the car.

Honda:  The one and only Honda I've ever bought was a new 2008 Civic for my youngest daughter. That was the biggest unmitigated turd of a vehicle I've ever owned! Nothing but problems from the time we bought it, and the local Honda dealer was a huge pain in the ass compared to the other dealers I've dealt with. Couldn't wait to unload it.

Kia:  After the Honda debacle above, my daughter moved to Kia's and is on her second one now. She loves them! Never had an issue with any of them.

A mechanic friend of mine who did my out-of-warranty work for years before moving away, was a certified BMW and Toyota/Lexus mechanic who told me that in his opinion the #1 most reliable brand was Toyota/Lexus, and #2 was Kia. Despite being one of the only certified BMW mechanics in our town, he strongly advised against them, LOL. He considered the Audi Q series to be reliable, just expensive to maintain (which I can certainly see, which is why I prepaid for my first 40K miles of maintenance at a steep discount). Some other Audi models are known to have issues, although I think you can find models to avoid with nearly any brand.
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