Horray for more blanket statements and generalities lol.
I proved ssq just about completely wrong in his post but you thanked him anyway just because he backed you up lol. I think I would have thanked someone who made an intelligent, well organized post, but his was just as bad as yours - completely full of bias. You pick single examples of vehicles and generalize that ALL of a brands vehicles are like that. I cant think of a worse possible practice. Besides, how do we know how your buddy's treated their vehicles? You can say whatever you want about how they all did all required maintenance, but we want statistics here - not here-say.
So, going off your standards, is a 1998 Chevrolet Prism a bad vehicle? It IS a Chevrolet after all...
Look, you're going to have to come in here with something a lot more solid than what you have so far. Spouting off stuff from the hip because your buddy's 1995 Mustang wasn't as reliable as your other buddy's Honda lol - solid argument you have there!
Besides, no comment on the GT-R tranny, or Suzuki's reliability (or lack thereof)? How about all of the rattles in the 370, and why does it take so long to get the valve train lubed up on a cold start in the VQ versus a horrifically simple small block chevy? Or, what many think is (albeit new and interesting) an overly complicated valve train system in the VQ? I know this is all over your head, but humor me anyway.