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I see you've never driven a Germany luxury car.

I've owned many, many BMWs over the past twenty years. I spent way more time and energy fixing quality issues on those BMWs in their first year than I have on my Tesla.

The Porsche Boxster I bought in 2015 was much better than the BMWs in its first year. But it did have a broken convertible top motor upon delivery. And that car just got totalled by my insurance company, because a defective firewall caused water to leak into the interior and destroyed the electronics and interior. The dealer estimated $48K to fix. Yes, $48K.

Keep it and turn it into a track car.

Thanks for the idea. But given my experience I've kinda soured on Porsche, plus parts are so damn expensive. My plan is to take part of the settlement and get/make a track-prepped miata.

Edit: But of course if someone feels so sorry for my tale of woe that they gift me a GT3, I wouldn't turn it down :-)

I don't blame you. A Miata is a great way to go. So much fun and yet so cheap.

I have. Loved the service, but I did get a chuckle out of the little things that broke precisely because they were overengineered unnecessarily.

I’ve got a 2013 Audi S5 and 2016 SQ5 sitting in my garage right now. They look great and are a lot of fun to drive, but have had materially more issues per mile than all but one other car I’ve owned (2003 Ford Expedition that was just shy of lemon status).

I certainly haven't, and I hear a lot of German luxury car owners don't get to drive them much either, because they're frequently in the shop for repairs, because apparently reliability isn't considered a luxury feature.

It isn't. If my luxury car breaks down (hypothetically, sadly I don't own one), the dealer picks it up at my house and leaves me a loaner. And I'm leasing, so what do I care about resale? The priority is the latest and greatest cool shit; which is the stuff that breaks down.

The Germans don't have built quality issues, they have engineering priority issues.

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