What do you do to your cars?
I've never had a car in overnight. And I couldn't point to anyone I know being without their car for even a week.
And I don't drive premium cars either, naively I would expect premium cars to be more reliable, and have better service.
I had an old Toyota that I just drove and drove and would not die. Multiple cross country trips and I never ever serviced it, except changing the oil every ~50k miles. The thing just kept on going.
I just bought a brand new BMW and I had to take it back to the dealer to fix something that broke after 5k miles.
I don't know if the parent was talking about major crashes, or reliability issues, 2 weeks in the shop would be my limit of acceptability for any car, a month, I'd be asking for my money back assuming it were a reliability issue. And multiple 2 week waits or a month wait, I wouldn't be buying from that manufacturer or dealer again, whatever the reason.
Is that my European point of view? have I been amazingly lucky?
I kind of mentally pigeonhole it with Kia, Hyundai and Daewoo, as they all arrived/got popular at a similar time. In the UK at least.
Plus, subjectively, it just doesn't sound like a Japanese name (to me).
"Mazda" is a German spelling of the Japanese name typically romanized as "Matsuda" (松田).