Modern German Cars

We might think of German cars as luxurious and high end cars, these cars such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi are the ones usually of the first things that pop up in people's minds. A lot of modern German cars do have a lot of great features and have built in technology just because they can. A lot of the users of these cars do not know what half the buttons do. A lot of parts on these cars that used to be metal are now plastic, they do this to cut costs, but that means that the parts on these cars will not last that long and when there is a problem then it will need to be fixed. Fixing these cars do cost a lot, as these cars are expensive to maintain. These modern cars look good on the outside and have great style, but on the inside when you take  a close look at the parts you can see that a lot of the parts are not design to last long. These German cars have gotten cheaper over the years when it comes to purchasing these cars, however if you have a car that constantly needs maintenance and these cars are not cheap to maintain you are basically throwing away your money. Some might argue that if you can buy a high end car you should be able to pay more for maintenance because it is luxurious car. That is a good point, but however I like to argue that if the car is luxurious and a high end car we should expect reasonable quality. Even with these cars being cheaper than before they are still not cheap and are consider a luxury. Do I expect to pay more for even the basic maintenance such as an oil change? The answer is yes absolutely and the price may be a lot higher as well, but I do not expect the car to be breaking down constantly that it needs to be fixed, because that tells me the car's quality is not good. With cars that have the brand name such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW or Audi I expect the car to be in reasonable quality, when a mechanic examined a Mercedes that has not had any problems yet, the computer had found a lot of faults with the car. When we look a the Japanese cars we can see their quality and they are cheap to maintain, I believe it is perfectly reasonable to expect a luxurious car to have around the same or better quality than those non luxurious Japanese cars such as Honda and Toyota. I also do believe that it is perfectly reasonable to expect that the luxurious cars will have a higher maintenance cost than those non luxurious cars. There have been a lot of people who have been complaining about the quality of the Mercedes-Benz and that these cars are more about features that are not necessary over quality.