Craiglxviii
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very interesting. and i believe directly linked to over complication of build gimicks ect. and i bet that the lack of dependability is directly linked to unreliable electrics rather than mechanical failure.
Not so much as you might think. The answer to your post would literally be a doctoral thesis in its own right as we would need to split out each brand into its models, then assign different categories across every model (there are something like 230 models in each survey).
Like I said either in this thread or another one, "build gimmicks" as a statement is both disingenuous and misleading. Many of them are either market requirements or regulation-fit parts; one area where there have been many issues has been self-leveling headlamps where the self-leveling mechanism has failed or lost its calibration, for one example that I know of as a fact.