Terrible example to prove a point. 25 year old BMWs are way more reliable than 25 year old Ladas except you don't see many of the old BMWs around because their

Terrible example to prove a point. 25 year old BMWs are way more reliable than 25 year old Ladas except you don't see many of the old BMWs around because their wealthy owner upgraded and you see a lot of Ladas because their empoverished owners can't afford anything new so they do what they can to keep them running but that's more survivorship bias of Communist cars which had terrible reliability, hell, most had issues straight out of the factory.