They do for moderate values of "forever". My truck is at 215 kmi and going strong after 18 years. That is durn close to forever.
Can you really go from 70 to 100 in two seconds? I find that hard to believe as well as pointless. Do you drive on the autobahn much? Here in the US the only place you can do 100 legally is on a track.
-- Rick
Hardly. I drive a Toyota and I almost bought a Lexus LS400 instead. That car drove like a dream. If the salesman had come down the last kilobuck I would have bought it. Then there was also the issue that I kept comparing it to the Mercedes. It was just as powerful, just as fast, just as quiet and the same price. Then I thought, so what's wrong with the Mercedes?
-- Rick
This has got to be so much BS. There are warranties and even if the "explosion" were out of warranty, when there is a clear defect like this the manufacturers do a voluntary recall. A friend's Honda van had a defective transmission which Honda was replacing up to 120 kmiles IIRC.
Their family cars have very mushy steering and nothing to brag about other than lasting nearly forever. I like driving nearly any car better.
-- Rick
Actually they very often are. Like the millions in this country who still smoke.
-- Rick
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Don't take my word for it. Do you own DD on Toyota settlement. As part of the law suit settlement, Toyota will fix engines if customers can show all maintenance records. If you don't have all the records or if the car is o ut of warranty, you are out of luck.
Not to mention the coverage, the premiums, and the deductibles. Soon, they'll be unhappy with the care, too.
In 2009, 80 percent were happy with their insurance, so 73% is regressive.
Today: "Just 30 percent of customers on Obamacare's exchanges were satisfied with their coverage"
OTOH, 85% on the exchanges are getting taxpayer support. Those not having to pay are understandably happy--on average they only pay $82 a month,[1] and get a subsidy of $272. They're paying less than 1/4 of the actual cost.
It's really just a big welfare program.
If Obamacare were better they wouldn't have to force people. If it cost less they wouldn't have to subsidize 85%.
If Obamacare had been in place a few years earlier, at least one person in my life would be dead today instead of alive and well.
Cheers, James Arthur ~~~~~~~
[1] Average subsidized premium $82, average subsidy $272 per month.
Years ago the courts stopped the automakers from requiring warranty claimants to prove "proper" maintenance. I didn't see anything credible about that in the Toyota case.
Toyota is saying the problem is "rare" with a few thousand reported cases out of the millions of cars sold in these models. I think that fits the definition of "rare".
Read this article about engine sludge problems and note that the Dodge Intrepid is reported to have *many* more incidents than all the Toyotas combined.
BTW, Toyota didn't do a "recall", but if you report the problem to them they will pay for the repairs up to 8 years after the car was sold. Clearly they are doing what all the car makers do in these cases. It is absurd to say modern engines are not reliable because of this issue.
But then you see conspiracy in lots of places.
-- Rick
They're making a choice.
But the vast majority who'd get the Obamacare shaft opted out, and nearly all of the sickest, oldest, & poorest eligible for the gravy-train hopped on.
That's pretty smart utilization of a pretty complicated welfare program.
Cheers, James Arthur
2 seconds very unlikely, when $500K supercars with less weight and twice the power can barely do 60-100mph in 2 seconds
-Lasse
Den tirsdag den 25. august 2015 kl. 19.44.20 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
just like Audi is "just" VW with fake-gold plastic trim
-Lasse
Gold? Not on any Audi that I've seen. And the trim seems to be metal.
My A3 is basically the body of a Rabbit with a very different drive train. My previous car was in fact a Rabbit, which I really liked, but I needed 4WD so got the used A3 on Craigslist. I considered a Suburu, but they always feel klunky to me. There aren't a lot of small 4WD vehicles around, and the former small SUVs are all gone or now bloated. There is a 4WD Fit in Japan, but not imported here.
There's nothing unreasonable about building a higher-end car on a standard frame... as long as it's not squishy and tacky.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
A: Parts and service cost.
Or Cadillac is just a Chevy with fake... Oh, wait!
Individuals are. People (as a whole) aren't. There are people who buy insurance off the exchanges, too.
Did anyone not have a Honda Accord or Odyssey of that era that did not have a defective transmission.
Some Toyota engines are bulletproof, some, like the ones with the sludging issue are not.
The 5S-FE engine was very robust. It's hard to find a rebuilt one because so few fail and are rebuilt.
It cannot. A 1970's law forbids it.
It affects the price, but in the same way.
Yes. See . It is close to full. The capacity is 713.5 million barrels. There are 695.1 million barrels at last count.
With a few seconds of thinking, it should be obvious to any engineer that the couple-of-seconds estimate is way off, by a factor of five roughly.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
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