Congratulations you've managed to buy two of the most unreliable brands before buying your Tesla. Both are generally known as tremendously unreliable cars (with the exception of BMW 3-series). The Range Rover in particular being known as one of those "buy two of them, one for the shop one for the garage" brands. BMW owners hide behind pre-purchased repairs being covered for 5 years via soon to be well worn warranty repairs.
If you care at all about reliability here's the rules:
- Do you want mechanical problems? Buy American, French or British/Indian brands
- Do you want Electrical problems? Buy German or Northern European brands
- Do you want none of the above? Buy consumer Japanese brands and avoid the Luxury brands except for Lexus. Korean cars are a close second.
- Do you want all of the above? buy a Jeep or an Italian car.
If only there was some place potential buyers could search for car reliability information.
And to tigershark, Ferrari and Lamborghini are both notoriously unreliable. It's just the price you pay to have good performance. If you make things more reliable, it tends to mean more metal and bigger bearings, which makes it heavier and reduces handling.
Refences: http://www.reliabilityindex.com/manufacturer http://www.dashboard-light.com/reports/Mid-size.html
One of my friends just bought a car with an incredibly well known mechanical issue and got to complaining about it. When asked if he bothered to look up the reliability of that make/model he answered "no".
He has a smart phone, knows how to use Google and works in I.T. Zero excuses, zero sympathy. After pressing, turns out he liked it because it was red and a hatchback.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a10316276/what-you-n...
I would guess a Honda Civic actually has way more $ in R&D spent on developing it than a new Ferrari, or even a relatively common luxury like a Porsche. Someone correct me if that's wrong.
But Acuras tend to be less reliable than Hondas
Infinities tend to be less reliable than Nissans
and so on.
Basically, fewer moving parts means better reliability in general. In addition, lower level cars are much cheaper to repair for various reasons.
Want a car that will run forever on the cheap? You're probably driving it.
The first one was rear ended by a Suzuki Vitara, which wrote off the car, in case anyone was curious why I have had two.