[TemjinX2]

The japanese starting building more reliable and cheaper luxury cars in the 90s, so BMW switched their strategy from building craftmanship type cars to cars with advanced technology.

If you look at the main 3 german brands, BMW, Mercedes and audi they always introduce new tech in every generation versus the japanese and american companies that waits until the tech is more mature before introducing it to the mass market, the exception would be tesla.

So with more advanced and unmature tech you will have more issues. Also germany has stricter environmental laws thats why you have more leaky gaskets compared to american and japanese suppliers. The question about BMW plastics breaking...its only because BMW is cheap.

To the people who say why doesnt BMW build simple lighter cars, the answer is new BMW car buyers dont want that. They want more space and more tech and their willing to pay new car prices.

BMW doesnt care about the second or third owner of these cars want.

Newer cars will become even more complex and advanced with more components...until everything is electric and it'll become a cell phone where all the functions are done on one board and you just swap out the board if it goes bad. With electric cars it'll basically become the board, battery and electric motor...so either the board, battery or motor is bad and you just swap it out.