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Originally Posted by Corona67

Warranties have become a marketing gimmick to sell undesireable makes/models. They are not free; the consumer pays for them as consumers pay for everything else. Warranties were originally designed to correct major/expensive defects with new cars.

About the only thing you said there that was even remotely rational was the part about customers paying for longer warranty. Your right, the longer warranty is rolled into the price of the vehicle, whether the customer knows it or not.

As far as it being a "gimmick", not so much. I would say it is more of a "reassurance" to the customer that their vehicle will be fixed for X amount of years, for free (I know there are exceptions to this). And it's not to get rid of "undesirable" models either. GM sells over 1 million 1/2 ton trucks/year. . . . so I would hardly call them "undesirable", yet they are covered under their new 100k mile warranty. Same can be said for Ford.

Originally Posted by Corona67

Now, certain manufacturers have targeted the apparently large-sized population of simple-minded folk in a desperate attempt to lure them from better-quality vehicles.

If you think people buy other brands only because they have been "lured", you are sadly mistaken. It is quite possible that people 1) Don't like the way Toyotas look 2) Don't like the way Toyota's drive 3) Don't like Toyota, period 4) Have no reason to go to a Toyota dealership, because they had great luck with X brand, or 5) They have been burned by Toyota in the past, and refuse to buy another one.

Originally Posted by Corona67

If you require a warranty repair, you have to schedule a date with the dealer, get put on a waiting list, take time off work, etc, etc, etc. Then they say "cannot duplicate", and you have to go through the whole BS again, or suck it up and tolerate the defect. If you want to put up with this crap for the next 100,000 miles, be my frickin' guest.

Originally Posted by Corona67

I'd rather buy a Toyota with an appropriately-sized warranty any day.

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Yea, like Toyota owners never have to deal with this. only difference is that after 36k miles, they are stuck with paying for it out of their own pockets. . . . .get real!!!