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Originally Posted by XutvJet
BMW has made massive strides with reliability in the past 10 or so years. Per CR and many other publications, they are some of the most reliable cars on the road. Expensive to maintain, sure, but overall quite reliable and miles ahead of VW/Audi, Benz, Jag, and Rover. Not even the same ball game. Porsche still remains pretty solid though their Audi-based SUVs are bringing down reliability numbers.
My 2016 M235 (ordered new) was ROCK solid. Minus one ECU update in the spring of 2017, it never required a repair by BMW or myself. All it did on that car was basic maintenance/preventive maintenance. That car was so good to me that I just got a 2018 M2 to replace it. My buddy has a 2015 X1 and his wife a 2020 X5. He's owned those cars for 4-7 years. No issues. Another friend has a 2016 328. No issues in 7 years of ownership.
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Years is not the metric, miles are. What miles were on these BMWs you mentioned? My 2006 E90 didn't have a failure until 130,000 miles (4 years) when the T-stat threw a trouble code. That's about 10 years for most people.
Of the 5 BMWs if owned, I find (found) all of them quite reliable. My newest is a 2008. My first was a 1989 E30 bought in Nov 1988.