They all, including crapota & Nissan trucks have their issues. Right now there really is no clear winner when it comes to reliability and durability. There are so many components on vehicles now a days it's a nightmare for the repair shops, dealer or independent. I frequent the forums for all the truck brands and it's amazing some of the issues the manufacturers are having with trucks after 30,000 miles or so. It's a crab shoot.
These statements are not true, although it may seem so.
The thing is, in the past the cars had a lot of "small" issues (e.g. carburetter clogging, misalignments, ignition contact wear and consequent advance alignment issues and many similar), which although cheap to fix, they were filling all the garages. Compare to these, the bigger problems were taken as way less common, so even when costly, people just did not count them.
With the development in the last few decades all the "small" problems become virtually eliminated (the self calibrating electronic fuel control does not depend on precise mechanics at all,...), what remained are just the "big" problems (severe engine breakdowns,...).
Because there is no "baseline" of the "small problems", those "big" ones become noticed. And so create huge frustrations among owners (even their nature is shifting, still they are the same expensive and happen as often as similar cost problems did all the time in the history)...
And there is another difference: The cars are generally way cheaper than they used to be. So although a major engine overhaul cost about the same (and happens as often) as it did 50 years ago (it needs roughly the same amount of hand work), the cars cost fraction of what they used to (mainly because the new vehicle production is highly automated today). So if that overhaul was 10% of the new vehicle cost 50 years ago, the same is now easily 50% of the vehicle cost and the 50% vs 10% is what is so irritating today...
And there is another difference: Once some design flaw (or batch faults) become discovered, in the past car makers just ignored that, even when it means a safety hazard. Today they are required to actively collect the data, report them and organize corrections on all affected vehicles (mainly if it involves personal or environmental safety). So people are made aware of many issues, which were just quietly ignored few decades ago...