Only for hardware

They are reliable, and yet they have snafus. For example, my Yaris came with a fuel tank that had a defective valve, and I had to trickle gas into it instead of fueling it normally. I basically had the trickle at 300 ml/s or so. The dealership replaced the whole tank for me under warranty as aygos and yarises now have monolithic plastic contraptions for their fuel tanks and you can’t just replace the inlet valve or what have they. It’s been solid and low maintenance since.

But the dealer acknowledged they had seen this as a somewhat systemic problem.

Then in winter, I had my HUD just shut off with no explanation. It came back a day later, worked ok since.

Then again, you need to treat the bottom of your car as soon as you buy it because it tends to corrode like mad. You don’t want your car to disintegrate on you in five years, do you?

I gather higher end models like RAV4 get more QC, and mine are mostly first world problems, but you can see repair-unfriendly and “just buy a new one” attitude creeping in.

ADAC long-term reliability report:

https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/unfall-schaden-panne/a...

See the table "Modellvergleich: Sieger & Verlierer" and navigate to the car category you want to see.