But seriously, if you want to just follow the maintenance schedule and get to where you need to go with minimal doubt - there's nothing quite like them

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago

Jeep gets you there, but Toyota gets you home.

[–] chaosppe@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Agreed. Bought a used toyota yaris back in 2018. Still runs perfect, and even if something would go wrong. It's cheap so I'm not worried. Good speakers, mpg is decent enough and road tax is like £35 per year. Doesn't make me look super cool, but I'd rather be financially sound.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I can't trust a car no matter how Japanese it is, but... I watched a lil docuseries on dangerous roads, and it seemed like at least 80% of the vehicles (outside of heavy trucks) were Toyota. I dunno if it's because they're the most reliable, or because Toyota just has the market in many of these developing countries, but it was interesting.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Older German cars also are great. My Skoda from ~2000 is still going strong (never had any issues) and I also see a lot of other older VW/Skoda around (also Audi, Mercedes and BMW but those are more expensive). Don't know what it's like today but at that time at least Skodas got the exact same engines as Audis, just not as beautiful bodies.

Can't comment on modern German cars, they haven't passed the test of time yet.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Skoda

They're Czech. The name even has a little thing on the S, officially.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I know, but they belong to VW and at least back then used Audi engines (which also belongs to VW)