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ELI5: Why is it that "German Engineering" is considered superior to all others when talking about cars?

I don't know if this is STILL the case (I know almost nothing about cars), but I feel like I've always heard that nobody can compete with them.
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Three of the best-selling luxury automakers are Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and BMW. They're all German. (Other strong luxury brands, such as Lexus [Japan], Acura [Japan], and Cadillac [US] are more diverse in origin.)

Other countries have multiple famous luxury brands, but those brands may, for example, be targeted at really small, hyper-rich markets (like Lamborghini.) So German automotive engineering has more visibility as a high-quality manufacturing process, and it's easy for the mind to find stereotypes to deal with people it doesn't know, be they positive or negative.

Throw in that the most famous non-luxury German brand, Volkswagen, has a long reputation for reliability and economy -- regardless of the current state of their products, think back to decades past -- so even at the low-end market, people associate it with reliable engineering.