Are Toyota and Lexus viewed as reliable in Germany?

In the US, there is a saying that Toyota and Lexus are amongst the most reliable cars (with the Toyota Camry, Lexus ES, Lexus GX, Lexus LX, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota 4Runner, etc being amongst the most reliable cars), and in the US, people always claim that BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi, etc, are considered ‘unreliable pieces of rubbish’ with rubbish build quality, etc (BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi are expensive to maintain but being expensive to maintain and expensive to own doesn’t always mean a car is unreliable and if you take good care of the BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi, the car would last a very long time).

People in the US claim that BMW, Mercedes Benz, and Audi could only last up to when the warranty period ends and that many cars are in the garage, despite the fact I still see many W220 S Class, W211 E Class, W203 C Class, many B5 and B6 Audi A4, many E46 and E90 BMW 3 series, many E39 and E60 5 series, and even some E38 7 series still around (in fact, my 85 year old uncle-by-marriage’s next-door neighbour is still driving an E38 7 series).

I still see an Audi 80, several 80s, 90s, and early 2000s Volvos, and several W202, W201, W210, W124, and W140 Mercedes Benz around Cambridge MA, and older German cars/Volvos are still quite common around here, as well as in Somerville and Brookline. Interesting fact is that over in Cambridge, there are quite a handful of 1980s-mid 2000s American cars (some Pontiac Vibe, Saturn Ion, Saturn S Series, Chevy Impala, Ford Taurus, etc, but it is quite rare compared to some BMW/Mercedes Benz models to find a 4th gen Taurus/8th gen Impala for that matter and 3rd gen Taurus/7th gen Impala are almost nonexistent despite the fact these are top sellers during their respective eras), but there are nearly as many 1980s-mid 2000s German cars as there are 1980s-mid 2000s Asian cars over in Cambridge even though Toyota is a mass market brand and Mercedes Benz/BMW are luxury brands and there are many more Toyotas sold than either BMW or Mercedes Benz (at least in the United States). Also, I have seen a W123 in the same street as where the W202 was in the street view. I have seen all of these, even though during the late 1990s and much of the 2000s, Mercedes Benz has been criticised for a lot of quality control issues and many late 1990s/2000s Mercedes Benz are viewed as ‘less reliable’ than the older ones.

I do know that the Mercedes Benz German market vehicles typically are less loaded than the American market Mercedes Benz cars (in Germany, a Mercedes Benz C180 would have cloth (stoff) seats with power but no memory drivers seat and a much smaller infotainment screen, whilst in the US, a base level Mercedes Benz C300 would have MB-tex leatherette seats with power driver and passenger seats with memory drivers seat and it would come standard with better looking wheels as well as a bigger infotainment system and an avantgrade look). Also, I have seen a lot of taxis in Europe being either a Mercedes Benz E Class (sometimes dating back to W124, but many of them are W210, W211, W212, or even W213) or a Toyota Prius (more recently), which does say a lot about Mercedes Benz reliability (at least in Europe).

European cars are not only favoured in Europe, it is also favoured in Asia, with European cars (BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi) making up at least half of foreign cars in Japan, with European cars being popular in China, Korea, as well as in Vietnam (my parents own a Mercedes Benz E200 Exclusive over in Vietnam and have been owning Mercedes Benz since the 1990s even though Vietnam is a developing nation, and so far, their Mercedes have been running so well (they took very good care of the car)). In many African countries such as Morocco, Botswana, and Tunisia and even in some Eastern European nations such as Albania, Bosnia Herzigovina, Serbia, etc, even though many Mercedes Benz are extremely old, they are still being praised over there. But in the US, it is a totally different story, with many people (some of them may have never even driven a European car before) bashing on German cars whilst at the same time, praising Japanese cars (specifically Toyota, Honda, and Lexus) and sometimes even praising American cars.

I am curious if Toyota and Lexus are viewed as reliable in Germany or are the BMWs/Mercedes Benz/Audi more reliable than Toyota and Lexus over in Europe?

[https://imgur.com/gallery/w2Qg1aq](https://imgur.com/gallery/w2Qg1aq)

Gallery showing the older than 10 year old German car sightings in Cambridge