>These sorts of expensive problems are not unknown in top-end cars from long-time manufacturers either. On the one hand, we have random internet people saying,

>These sorts of expensive problems are not unknown in top-end cars from long-time manufacturers either. On the one hand, we have random internet people saying, "This is normal!". On the other, we have a 70 year old magazine that has reported on thousands of cars (and hundreds of thousands of consumer goods) stating that the reliability is "below average" to "well below average", which implies "This is NOT normal!". I'm going to go with the magazine...