When we lived in Tokyo ( for 10 years ) we never owned a car since public transport is super fab , but here in the boondocks of Kumamoto where we now reside a car is a necessity . I don’t drive , but my wife owns a Honda Life ( 660CC engine with turbo ) that has to be one of the most reliable cars in the world . She’s on her 3rd ( one totalled in an accident the winter before last ) and loves it . Haven’t owned a GM product since 1973 - a Camaro Z-28 - and that was a lemon ! Only lemons I ever owned were made in either the US or UK . Every Japanese-made car I’ve / we’ve owned was super reliable .
My GM experience was not so good. I had a Buick that had a transmission failure in the first month. To add insult to injury, I was driving it back from the dealer (50 miles away) after the repair when the car went totally dead on my long and not so smooth driveway. When they put the transmission back on the block, they had sandwiched the battery cable between the transmission and the block ! The insulation finally broke through to short it out.
Everything after that was either Toyota or Volvo, Volvo being my last three.
Where I now live, a car is the very last thing that I could need or want.