Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

Yea, not sure what hes comparing Mazdas to.

As someone who's turned wrenches since the late 70's, Mazda is in my top 3 for reliability: Honda, Toyota, Mazda, in that order.

Every other brand you get to fix the same thing more than once, have weird failures, mixture of Metric and ACU bolts (looking at you American Manufacturers), over-designed systems making trouble-shooting and repair more difficult and costly (like VW tying the door lock ECU to the air conditioning), crappy electrics (Chrysler/Dodge wins on this one, they're almost as bad as as 70's British car with Lucas electrics), weird and problematic mixtures of vendor sources (again, Chrysler, since the days they bought AMC they've continued to have hodge-podge vehicles, like the Chryslers with Mercedes diesel engines, but modified so they don't always use the exact same parts), etc, etc.

I could go on for days listing each manufacturer's pain points.

Far less so with the 3 Japanese listed. For the most part, their vehicles are all their own (some exceptions with Mazda when they were owned by Ford, and Toyota had some GM ties over the years), and even those cars are more Japanese design/engineering/manufacturing than Big 3.

Tried to search up what I could have sworn was bad quality control problems. Turns out I don’t know what the hell I was thinking.