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Cars are unique, get one that was properly maintained. You will hear a lot of "avoid germans, get a toyota" but I had 0 problems with my previous vw and audi, while my family and friends all had japanese cars and spent ridiculous amounts fixing them. A car's history matters the most. Oh and stay the hell away from anything french.
German cars can either go 300k miles and be great, or 25k miles and take a crap because their plastic water pump failed (bmw). I'd say they're very reliable when all preventative maintenance is done. But then so is any car, and most people don't do preventative maintenance because we are humans.
nothing's more expensive than a cheap bmw.
I've owned 4 golfs, and my impression of vw is regardless of how they're maintained little issues start popping up everywhere after about 100k miles. No amount of maintenance is going to prevent window switches from breaking for example
My 3.2 vw passat had 250k km or 155k freedom units and it worked like a dream. It even had the much feared dsg gearbox. I only swapped it for audi a4 because I got bored with it.
French cars donβt exist in Canada