What percentage of 20 year old cars are on the road?
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From: 80 Knight on 28 Oct 2009 14:26 "SMS" <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote in message news:4ae8670c$0$1625$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... > Someone that purchases a Toyota or Honda is more likely to be more highly > educated and higher income, and will maintain their vehicles better... What drugs were you on when you wrote that?
From: N8N on 28 Oct 2009 14:51 On Oct 28, 2:09 pm, klu...(a)panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: > N8N <njna...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >If it's a US-centric list, that makes sense, since neither was sold > >here. > > It's a Canadian list. That's why it doesn't have Yugo on it. > > However, Peugeot, Renault, and Fiat all sold cars in the US for a while. > You don't see a lot of them on the road today for reasons that will be > immediately apparent if you ever drive one. > --scott > -- > "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." Not in the last 20 years, I don't think. Last one to leave was Renault I believe in something like '87 or '88? nate
From: hls on 28 Oct 2009 15:12 "N8N" <njnagel(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c044e792-495c-4cc4- Not in the last 20 years, I don't think. Last one to leave was Renault I believe in something like '87 or '88? nate ******* It has been a while, for sure. I have driven Renault and Peugeot in Europe in recent years and they were surprisingly powerful and smooth. I believe they are far better than the cars of years ago which were brought here without a proper service and distribution network. Fiat is likely to be still Fiat.
From: clare on 28 Oct 2009 16:01 On 28 Oct 2009 10:48:53 -0400, kludge(a)panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: >SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote: >> >> 1. Lexus >> 2. Mercedes >> 3. Saturn >> 4. Infiniti >> 5. Acura >> 6. BMW >> 7. Volvo >> 8. Cadillac >> 9. Jaguar >>10. Lincoln >>11. Toyota >>12. Honda >>13. Mazda >>14. Saab >>15. Buick >>16. Volkswagen >>17. Chrysler >>18. Nissan >>---Industry Average--- >>19. Oldsmobile >>20. Subaru >>21. Chevrolet >>22. Ford >>23. Pontiac >>24. Audi >>25. Mercury >>26. Eagle >>27. Dodge >>28. Suzuki >>29. Plymouth >>30. Isuzu >>31. Hyundai >>32. Lada >> >>They warn that this data needs to interpreted correctly. Owners of older >>expensive luxury cars are more likely to repair their vehicle than junk >>it. Vehicles sold in large numbers into rental fleets rack up a lot of >>miles and have shorter life in years, but not necessarily in miles. Some >>vehicles in the list didn't exist 20 years prior to the study so there >>were no vehicles 16-20 years old, only vehicles 11-15 years old (this >>explains the anomaly of Saturn). > >I would just like to point out that Fiat is not even ON this list, that >it is farther down in the order than Lada. There is some justice in this >world. >--scott When was Fiat last sold in America. 1988? for Canada. So no Fiats less than 20 years old.
From: Tegger on 28 Oct 2009 16:02
Roger Blake <rogblake10(a)iname10.com> wrote in news:slrnhege2p.dn7.rogblake10(a)svalbard.freeshell.org: > (A car can be kept going pretty much > indefinitely if one is sufficiently determined.) > And if the climate cooperates. Up here in the Rust Belt it is very very very difficult to keep Mother Nature from trying to reclaim a daily-driver-car's body. Impossible, really. -- Tegger |