I have a feeling that the whole German car reliability thing is probably a fallacy these days. Try googling Audi/Skoda Superb oil pump drive failure and it's amazing that VAG are aware of this failure and offer an upgraded part which is expensive to fit but will not pay anything at all when the failure causes major expense such as turbo failure, engine etc.Apparently this just effected fairly early 2.0 TDI Audi's and Skoda Superb's as the oil pump drive was supposed to make the engine quieter and more refined in the luxury cars and thus rarely found it's way into Golf's, Leon's, Octavia's etc. which had a more noisy drive that did not fail. A guy at work had to spend a fortune on 2007 Audi A4 when this issue damaged his turbo. VAG did not want to know. I guess issues like this can afflict other manufacturers cars too, but I believe VAG has probably lost a lot of customers, still they don't care as they still have lots more.