From: Mike Hunter on
What is your point? I never said Toyota made bad stuff, Toyota makes great
stuff but today so does every other manufacturer. What I said was one
need not spend 20% to 30% more to get a good vehicle. Any car will last
that long if given the proper preventive maintenance. We serviced
thousands of fleet cars that were run up to 300,000 miles or more, when I
owned my fleet service business.

One of my collector cars is a 1971 Pinto that has 301 thousand on the
odometer and has the original drive train. One is a 1941 with well over
170,000 miles on the odometer, it too has the original V12 drive train.

"in2dadark" <in2dadark(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 14, 10:45 am, "Mike Hunter" <Mikehunt2(a)lycos,com> wrote:
> Where did you ever get that idea? What I said was, according to industry
> statistics and from I know what we did in our Toyotas stores, that Toyota
> BUYERS pay 20% to 30% MORE to drive home their Toyota than if they had
> purchased a domestic of the same size and with the same equipment.
>
> We always made a higher gross on EVERY Toyota we sold. WE LOVED Toyota
> buyers who had the perception the were better and were willing to pay MORE
> to drive one home LOL
>
> "jim beam" <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
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> news:65udnSwiYNlIrurWnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net...
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>
>
> > so mike, since you say you were in sales, and sales is all about
> > numbers,
> > and because you say toyota sell their vehicles at a loss,- Hide quoted
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I have 165,000 miles of 'perception' sitting in my driveway. I've
never gotten much past 60k with a GM before I got a whole different
'perception'...