[floridaorange]

Was having a new battery installed yesterday at German car mechanic -

Audi
VW
BMW
Mercedes

That's the order of most to least amount of problems they see - and therefore expense to maintain.

Additionally they said the layout of the engine bay is was really makes these cars works of art vs American & Japanese cars. On the German cars working in them is much faster because nothing is in the way, on the American & Japanese cars other parts need to be removed to get to the actual issue.