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Originally Posted by BRIAN
The Japanese car makers have to be applauded for their advertizing and public brainwashing. Funny how everybody says how great their Lexus is and how long their Honda last. Well next time you take a ride or look in the want ads tell me where are all these supposed 200k and 300k Japanese vehicles??? Heck, Try to even find a 80's Camary? Have you ever looked inside a 5 year old Lexus?
Most Japanese car owners feel paying for $400 service intervals or $600 alternators is something to brag about. Then hear about the guy with a Cavalier that has 100k and just needs say an A/C compressor complaining about what a piece of garbage it is.
Japanese cars are engineered to be built with the least cost involved plain and simple. They make their money on the parts and service. You look at ANY component under the hood of a Lexus and compare it to a German made one and you would have to be blind to see the difference. Heck the biggest mistake the Germans have made is trying to include all the useless bells and whistles that never work after a year or so.
Last but not least are the unions that are killing themselves. Maybe somebody should explain to the guy with zero education making $75 and paying 0 for his benifts that there are laywers and doctors from ivory league schools not making that much. We are killing ourselves and our greed will ruin this country.
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Sorry, but you are way off on your japanese car interpretation. In my family there have been about 6 toyota's and well over 2m miles combined. In fact I have an aunt who bought 3 toyota's in a row, all over 150k miles, she had to buy 'new' ones because her daughters kept wrecking them. I have gone to look at Lexus's in my budget and all had over 150k miles and drove like new.
Then again, I worked at a repair shop and saw many 7-10 year old 80-110k mile BMW's with major malfunctions.
My father was a GM employee for 27 years and owned nothing but chevy's and almost every single one of them, needed some sort of repair (you would not expect) in the first year.
So yeah, the brainwashing worked, when my family got good cars from Toyota that lasted for years and miles many times more than the chevy's in my family, they brainwashed me into thinking their products were better.
I have gone back to Chevy though, with a 2002 Malibu, then a 2005 Trailblazer, and both of them required no repairs, but I didn't have them that long (up to 54k on the malibu, up to 36k on the blazer) then we traded in on a 05 Durango (stupid stupid stupid) that has been to the dealer 3 times and needs to go back and has less than 18k miles, and has had interior pieces fall off in hand.
Sorry for the rambling, but I have seen a lot of toyota's and lexus's with way over 100k miles, many of them in my own family. In fact my first brake job was on a 1985 celica with over 230k miles.
When is the last time you saw a Chevy with over 200k miles? In my family I have seen 4 Toyota's with that, and they have owned more chevy's than toyota's by a large margin.