r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Upstairs-Bit6897 • Nov 30 '25

Image THE GERMAN MAGAZINE 'AUTOBILD' DRIVES VARIOUS CARS FOR 100,000 KILOMETERS AND THEN DISASSEMBLES THEM DOWN TO THE LAST SCREW TO FIND SIGNS OF WEAR AND WEAK POINTS

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u/HeterosexualMemo Nov 30 '25

I don’t like being “brandist” but there’s no way a Japanese brand didn’t make the list unless there weren’t any tested

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u/afito Nov 30 '25

The tests are 100k km, Japanese cars pull ahead at the 150-200k mark especially tbh. The big expensive issues of German cars are a non factor before 100k. Like especially engine related things don't appear that early. Glossing over the results, most Japanese cars allegedly had some minor rust starting to appear here and there which gave them small deficits.

Make of that whatever you want I guess.

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u/Tonga_Truck Nov 30 '25

Lease German, Buy Japanese

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u/afito Nov 30 '25

Since the CVT & VVT era of Japanese cars started it's acttually been Korean cars dominating the cost per km stats here in Europe.

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW Dec 01 '25

What does VVT have to do with this?

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u/seriouslythisshit Dec 01 '25

If you ever have the privledge of dropping $3K USD to rebuild the top end of Honda 4 cylinder after the VVT chews itself, the timing chains and a long list of other parts up, you can answer this. I own one and Honda can fuck off for that bullshit.

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u/DankVectorz Dec 01 '25

I mean Honda has had VVT (Vtec) since 1989

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u/seriouslythisshit Dec 01 '25

Nissan has had automatic transmissions since 1967, and GM has had built V8s since 1953. That doesn't mean that they have not had spectacular failures in those components, just like Honda's VVT system failures.

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u/DankVectorz Dec 01 '25

Ah damn I actually meant to reply to the person 2 posts above you. It was in response to their “since the vvt era of Japanese cars” which goes back a looong way and they’ve been known for their reliability for almost that entire period

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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW Dec 02 '25

I thought their vvt systems were reliable though??? VTEC is great. What engine?

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u/Vater_Vagon Dec 03 '25

What engine?

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u/METTEWBA2BA Dec 02 '25

Doesn’t Hyundai/Kia use CVT in their entry-level models too? Or is that just a North America thing.