[ExI] worked on me

[William Flynn Wallace]

I was thinking mostly of frequency of repair costs and there the Toyota
beats them all.  Honda in second place and Subaru way up there.  No German
cars near the top.  Nor AMerican.  Jeep the lowest of all.

Just griping:  my white car had the dashboard take a dive:  new computer =
$1000.

Now the 'gold' car needs new ball joints - $1000.  Dry rot on the tires :
michelin = $650.

Still, many years of no car payments, very little maintenance, and so I
think I am still ahead.  We have enough in reserve so that we don't have to
cut back on spending (the first time in my post-divorce life that that is
true) - a good feeling.

Town cars forever!!   bill w

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 9:44 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> >…Let's hear it for the Japanese:  their
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> Toyotas are more reliable than German
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> Billw, that depends on how you compare them.  If you wish to compare cars,
> you must compare them in classes of similar performance.  Consumer reports
> tends to miss this persistently.  If you get a Japanese car that performs
> similarly to its German counterpart, it is similar in initial cost, in
> repair and maintenance costs and in depreciation.
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> If you measure that way, American performance cars meet and often beat
> both Japanese and German.  The venerable corvette does well in performance
> per dollar competitions.
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> Regarding performance per dollar in cars: the Chinese are coming.  They
> are not here yet, but they are coming.
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