From Eric Peters Autos:

There is probably a rule against what I am about to do. As a guy who makes his living writing articles about cars – and reviewing new cars – I surely flirt with nacht und nebel for revealing the following:

* There aren't any s#$%^& cars anymore -

At least, not like there used to be s#$%^& cars. Sure, there are new cars that don't sell well – or which are ugly. But that's different. I mean cars that literally began to fall apart within a few months of purchase – or even sooner.

There is no modern analog to rolling class-action lawsuits like the early-'70s Chevy Vega with the aluminum engine that GM was too cheap to sleeve and which, accordingly, often required as much oil as it did gas before the new car smell dissipated. Or a mid-'80s Yugo. Or anything like that. Sure, sometimes a new car will have bugs. But it's rare to find one that's deeply, fundamentally fecal in the way that was once common.

All new cars are also covered by comprehensive warranties that last at least three years (worst case) and, increasingly, as long as five years and 50,000 miles – with the major parts (engine and transmission) usually covered for longer.

Every automaker still selling cars today has a quality/reliability level that would have seemed literally unbelievable 20 years ago. The bar for "par" is so much higher now that second (and maybe third) tier scorers on customer satisfaction surveys are probably building cars that are more reliable than the best stuff you could buy back in the '80s.

What all this means is...

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