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Re: do any of you ALSO own a Jetta or Passat?
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:33:42 -0700, Coyoteboy wrote:
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>> Ironically, one of the most trouble-free cars I've owned was a Peugeot. And
>> I've owned a Renault Le Car, and a Simca many years ago that had no
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> Modern cars are getting more and more unreliable IMO, across the board.
> Sure they might not be major mechanical faults (big ends etc) but the
> niggling little electronic bits and complex suspension that gets clunky
> after 50K miles is all due to over complexity and poses more of a cost
> and impossition on the owner than the old cars where you had to swap
> some big cheap chunks of metal every 50K and on it chugged.
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> Unfortunately we want refinement and green-ness too so we're shafted.[/color]
I want my '80's Corollas, Celicas and Camrys back.
Man, they just ran FOREVER!!! Easy to fix, I thought they looked cool and
were inexpensive.
Just like I have said before, if GM wants to get out of the hole, dig up
the plans for the '64 Nova with the Straight 6...
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