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--- Quote from: fredster on May 06, 2005, 02:12:49 pm ---Buy American.
Buy a ford. I have a Ford Ranger that has given me 100000 without so much as a hickup. I'm impressed.
GM's are good too. Buy a model that's been out for awhile. An '89 grand am I had was at 210K when I sold it. Ran as good then as the day I bought it with 30K on it.
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We've been over this. Cars in Massachusetts don't last 200k miles. They rot out underneath from 8 months a year of salt covered roads. The problem more often than not is NOT the drive train, it's the undercarriage and suspension and floorboards with holes in them.
BTW, Hyundai is an American car now. Most of them are made in the Midwest.
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Again, IF you don't take care of them. I live in PA which still uses salt and I have a 1986 S-10 that's doing fine. I think earlier in this thread I told you about a relative in NH with an old Ford F-150. I also have a relative in Upstate NY that has 3 cars over the age of 10 and they're all still OK.
Basically, if you don't know anything about cars and are too lazy to maintain them, no car will last 200k miles. Taxachussets isn't doing anything special to the roads there that disintegrates cars. Go into a self-serve car wash after the road salt is mostly gone, spend $4 and 6 minutes spraying underside with clean water and your car won't rust out.