The Porsche Cayenne Is More Reliable Than The Subaru BRZ

"Vicente Esteve" (vicente-esteve)
08/04/2014 at 17:14 • Filed to: reliability

Who on their right minds would call a German Super SUV Brimmed to its last bolt of excruciatingly over engineered technology more reliable than the lightweight, basically equipped Toyota Co-Developed Sports car? Our Buddies at Consumer Reports thats who!

Yes, the same people that !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! mentioned in their handy 2014 Buyers guide a Big Black Dot of Doom to the Subaru BRZ in "Predicted Reliability". Whilst the Cayenne fared much better with only a half blacked dot.

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I don't know if they really think the Cayenne is going to be more reliable than the Subaru, but it surprised me quite a lot.

DISCUSSION (28)

treesmakewater > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 17:18

only time will tell. I don't see it personally.

MazdaMonkey > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 17:21

Even if the Cayenne is more reliable, Porsche repair costs are much higher. Ask anyone with a late-nineties/early-2000s IMS failure.

Vicente Esteve > treesmakewater
08/04/2014 at 17:22

Neither do I. Not in a million moons.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 17:22

I think I would rather take the BRZ. I am not a huge fan of large vehicles.

Stef Schrader > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 17:22

Not surprising. Porsche gets out of its slump, starts making awesome cars again, and...uh, let's not count the 991 GT3s.

I've seen plenty of Subies go boom on track. Lots of fun right 'til then. Still, their NA engines tend to be a little heartier somehow. It is a new design, though, so eh. Shakin' out the bugs, I guess.

tl;dr: I need a tow Cayenne.

Vicente Esteve > MazdaMonkey
08/04/2014 at 17:23

Exactly. A relative has a 2004 one, and when she first wanted to show me the air suspension lifting and hunching down, it broke.

Alfalfa > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 17:24

Consumer Reports has always been kind of a mixed bag. They only take a limited amount of variables into account, usually ones only applicable to the first few years of ownership.

Decay buys too many beaters > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 17:42

Does not surprise me in the slightest. One of them will be driven to and from the hairdresser's, the other will be hooned mercilessly by inexperienced millenials. Even if the BRZ/FR-S had greater overall reliability it's still going to break more often just because of the type of driving and owner that it attracts.

HammerheadFistpunch > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 18:05

Consumer reports: telling you what you we want you to hear since ever.

wkiernan > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 18:25

A lot of people who buy the Toyobaru drive it real hard. That's the kind of buyers it attracts, which, incidentally, makes me pretty pessimistic about the used market a few years down the road. Who drives his Cayenne hard? Yeah, sure, there's that one guy.

newnewnewburner > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 18:41

people who buy cars for reliability buy toyotas... that should tell you something about reliability ratings.

Vicente Esteve > Vince-The Roadside Mechanic
08/04/2014 at 19:16

Hmmmm, I would have to think about it for some time

Vicente Esteve > Stef Schrader
08/04/2014 at 19:17

Being a new model is against the Subaru, but WORST reliability?

Vicente Esteve > Alfalfa
08/04/2014 at 19:18

People who have them down the line for 5 or more years are more accurate it would seem

Vicente Esteve > Decay buys too many beaters
08/04/2014 at 19:19

Very good point. I even wonder if the really fast Cayennes are driven with more than mid-throttle.

Vicente Esteve > wkiernan
08/04/2014 at 19:20

It seems this will be one damn hard car to find unmodified in the used market.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 19:48

So what are you going to buy with 20K?

Decay buys too many beaters > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2014 at 20:27

Honestly, I'm pretty sure 90% of cars in general are never driven at more than half throttle. Most people seem to have an active fear of letting the engine on their car rev out.

Vicente Esteve > Vince-The Roadside Mechanic
08/04/2014 at 21:50

Heres your sneak peek

Kinja'd!!!