I don't think calling newer cars "POS" is very fair. And I don't see them being replaced every few years as a necessary exercise. I have seen plenty of examples of 2005 and newer vehicles in the 150-200k mile range still going strong, still getting good gas mileage and still not fouling the air. Yeah, I use to be all for keeping the old iron on road, but do you really want to ride on a highway full of them? I paid 16k out the door for my wife's Corolla. 5 years and 90k miles later, all I have done is oil changes and front brake pads. Car drives like new and feels like it could easily do another 100k.
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Don Hanson Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 1:58 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Friday NVC: European Union switch to diesel not working so well Just so they don't start going after old cars . . .
Remember "Cash for Clunkers?" that took a lot of great old vehicles out of service and got them replaced with the "new, disposable vehicles" The car companies would love to see us all having to drive (and replace every few years with another $20k POS they could sell us with a finance contract and extended warrantee for about $50k) only new vehicles...It is not unlikely that they'll figure out a way to get their Congress to pass a law in that direction and call it...."good for you"..."Clean air" Job creators... |
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