I find it amazing how foreign manufacturers get a break over American made vehicles.
GM will certainly has its weaknesses (like any manufacturer) in some places but their engines and associated components for the amount of cars they produce are reliable as heck, almost bulletproof.
I have decades of experience dealing with GM and Ford products, and my experiences with them have lead me to never buy one ever again.
I’ve never had an issue with a GM engine or transmission.
Sometimes the hardware isn’t up to snuff such as simple things like dials controls windshield washers, but even those have greatly improved.
1979 Pontiac Bonneville with the Buick 350 V-8 had the entire valvetrain just noisy as heck when the car got fully warmed up.
Quiet when cold, but when warmed up, sounded like there was a half dozen sewing machines under the hood.
1985 Mercury Topaz and transmission troubles due to a plastic gear in the transmission that deteriorated 3 separate times.
Fuel Injection system recall because of FIRE RISK. That's just a big old NOPE.
1981 Pontiac Grand Prix with the 231 V-6 that had the nylon timing gear set come apart while I was away in college.
Also burned a valve.
Best American car I ever owned.
Loved that car.
1992 Buick Park Avenue Ultra with the supercharged Series 1 3800.
Yes, it was a great engine when it ran, but oh my god, it was built with crap parts.
Supercharger nose cone leaked like a sieve thanks to the rope type oil seals. It's 1992 for god sakes, why are you still using rope type oil seals on anything that is intended to keep oil inside the engine?
The cush drive parts in the supercharger nose cone deteriorated, and the nose cone knocked all the time.
The magnet on the cam gear just simply falls off, and now you have a check engine light on, forever.
Front engine mount never was up for the torque that the engine produced, and needed to be replaced every year, along with the spark plug wires, which you could see arcing under the hood at night.
The transmission died, and the replacement had the differential EXPLODE the first time I drove it after picking it up from the transmission shop.
Eventually, the hood release cable had stretched so much, I could't get the hood to pop anymore, and that was it for that hunk of excrement.
That Park Avenue was the final nail in the coffin for me ever spending my hard earned money on an American vehicle, for any reason.
My next vehicle was a 2007 Nissan Altima, and I've never looked back.
1998 Porsche Boxster.
2011 Mazda RX-8.
2014 Mazda CX-5.
2015 Porsche Cayman.
2021 Alfa Romeo Giulia.
2022 Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
In 2008, my wife bought a 2008 Chrysler Crossfire.
In the 3 years she owned it, it needed over $21k in warranty work, including the clutch that had a spring break in it.
And when the dealer handed the car back to us with a replaced clutch and flywheel, it immediately set the CEL and went into limp mode the first time the engine was revved over 3k rpms, because the replacement flywheel had a damaged tone ring that nobody noticed during install, and that nobody bothered to check during the post repair test drive, that I doubt actually happened.
She traded that in for a 2012 Fiat 500 Sport on September 3rd, 2011.
Reinforcement to not buy American, since she hadn't had my luck with them up to that point.