Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:19:47 -0500
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: New cars..RE: Friday NVC: European Union switch to diesel not
working so well
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The average age for cars registered in the U.S. is 9+ years. They go for 200k miles still running like new. Modern cars, despite all the negative publicity, are just BETTER than cars used to be. When I was young, we expected a car to do pretty well for 50k miles, then to limp through to 100k. Starting around 1990 I began to notice that people were driving late model cars well past that, and not having to repair things.
Now, if something DOES go wrong, getting it fixed can be frustrating and expensive. But things just don't go wrong like they used to. Heck, spark plugs last 125k miles, and oil lasts 8k miles. Tires on sedans run for 80k miles typically.
But, we keep complaining.
mcneely
---- Project Pat <psdooley@VERIZON.NET> wrote:
> 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...
--
David McNeely
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