Same here: I would prefer Tesla to rate well on reliability but I can also tell you that in the mid-80s I spent many an hour explaining to a recent Detroit transplant that American car manufacturing quality needs serious improvent and that, no, Japanese quality isn't better mainly because of Japanese government support. Japan took our own Deming seriously; we didn't.

Kia isn't Japanese. And Toyota has had problems since their zienth mid 90s. So nobody has got a lock on this. But one has gotta stay after it