Almost everyone knows an uncle's brother's girlfriend's twice-removed cousin who had <insert disaster here> with <insert car marque here>. It's not exclusive to European cars either, people would try and spin me the same story about my previous car whose transmission was guaranteed to explode the moment I looked at it sideways.
Owned three of them over eight years, two of them with the allegedly susceptible automatic transmission. I experienced no such failure. A friend owned a Nissan Skyline 350GT which did experience a transmission failure and it cost several thousand dollars to replace.
Does this mean I think all Nissans are shit? No of course not.
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