I see a posting of an american website where users are asked to input their data.
have any of you ever met an average american luxury brand owner? - let me examplify a few items. They are so aloof of everything that they will drive with a flat tire for weeks (because run flat tire) and then yell/scream when they see an invoice that says that one tire is 300 dollars.
similarly I have seen a lot of owners simply drive it into the ground and then say - this car sucks because mah chevy runs with no maintenance - said chevy is a pile of scrap anyway. e.g. driving off to fly by the night el cheapo oil change place because the dealer is expensive, oil change place pours in whatever generic 5w30 they have and send the guy off who drives it till 15,000 miles and totals the engine, when asked their reply is - this car sucks because it cant even get to its oil change interval (for them haail is haail)
there are thousands of such cars in USA and 99% of them are all luxury brands including american and japanese ones - almost all of them have sludged engines, cords showing on tires, razor thin brake discs, interior looking like a kachra kundi and every single one of them says - this car sucks as it has no resale - no dealer wants to trade it in. (they assume that a rolling heap is worthy of money because it has a luxury badge on it)
servicing of any car in Pakistan is most of the time comical - even at authorised showrooms - e.g. a few toyota showrooms would request assistance in automatic transmission troubleshooting - and the joke was that I would be using tools of my own and then some technician would show up with a new in box similar tool - saying that they have it but have no idea what the hell it is.
so a burnt starter motor (unlikely unless proven to you) more sounds like a key authorisation fault. Or a failed compressor (unless proven to you) is not a common failure, the new type compressors dont utilise magnetic on off clutches instead use a PWM type control stuck on the nose of it - the compressor is variable type and functions all the time and has a lot of failsafes built in the system. (read as: they changed the part because they wanted to try the age old Pakistani repair tradition of shotgunning parts at the car)
when comparing car reliability - please make sure you take into consideration the market you are in. The USA list cannot apply to Pakistan, the parameters to make that list are non existant in Pakistan. e.g. out of every 10 benz in Pakistan only 2 are official imports, the others are personal baggage cars from Japan, Thailand, UK etc etc.
similarly the UK list cannot apply to Pakistan.
I can examplify you another situation - the famous 5 speed automatic in benz leaks at the connector - its annoying to see your "luxo barge" peeing a bit of red on the floor - so you scoot to the dealer, display your anguish and get a repair job done claiming your transmission was resealed (the little connector was replaced - takes 20 minutes tops including smoking breaks) - you then update your life diary with "transmission reseal event" - similar incident happens with GM transmissions too - where you go in and say - "hey mah truck is leakin trans fluid - rpair that while I munch on my tobacco" - the repair is nearly the same - repair job says whatever. The truck owner doesnt give a crap on his life diary - hence no such lists are ever updated. - toyota corolla/camry owners are special in the USA, they buy the car never to return to the dealer, drive them till they are a rolling trashcan, ashtray or smell of socks and dead rodents, engine belching blue smoke because el cheapo oil - trans dead because no ATF change, brakes siezed because no maintenance - such owners dont have time to input their data to such lists - dealer reports - these cars are so awesome they never fail.
For me these lists are comical and funny because I have been on the other side of the desk.