Well, if you look at some cars from different companies, they might beat one particular BMW but like you said not ONE company ever did. I don't know why my dad hates BMWs but sometimes it just goes over the top with his remarks. When my fan clutch went, we thought it was the pump and he started saying something like, my toyota didn't overheat, the pump didn't break and all that (1997 with a few thousand more on the clock), my come back to that was as follows: "Of course it didn't break, you had it replaced for over 500 bucks." Even after that he would say things like it is hard to perform service on BMWs. Go figure, I am sold on them, don't really care what he thinks.