The mechanics and claims adjusters I know say they are still garbage. Time will tell. When they start routinely going 250,000 miles and not folding like tissue paper in accidents I'll believe it.
SUV (Escalade) is Amurrrican Sedan (Camry) is Japanese The worst car I ever owned was a 2001 VW Passat V6. That thing cost me almost $4k in engine problems. Thankfully my work paid for it at the time, but wow, it looked nice, ran very well when healthy, but was a freaking lemon and hell to have fixed.
10000% agree. Loved my VW, thing would go from 60 to 80 to pass a car so fast it threw you back in your seat, but cost way too much in maintenance/repairs.
I wont touch euro cars. They look great and drive good, but repairs are a nightmare. I prefer japanese cars, american trucks. Basically anything Subaru, honda, Toyota or ford made.
I would take a Jetta GLI over a Camry any day. I don't care if people say they are girl cars or what not. Volkswagen makes a great car. That's just me though.
I am all about German Performance (Owned a Porsche, BMW and Mercedes), but I love my american Jeep Rubicon! Here are the pictures of my current cars! and and
It depends... Sedan: I prefer German cars...specifically BMW. SUVs and trucks: I definitely prefer American. Specifically Ford Powerstrokes. Sports Car: For a performance/cost ratio you can't beat the Corvette. But in general I'd probably go with German sports cars. Just something that runs but is boring: Japanese cars.
I ran mine to 250k over 6 years or so and was shocked. Sure, they don't hold value like other brands. But they'll run.
Corvettes are boring. A lot of engine. Nothing else. Everywhere I went , other owners honked and waved. Cool, til you realize they're all old, empty-nesters. They serve little purpose but a big, powerful engine. They're not convenient. They're not efficient. They're not great for traveling.
A lady at work bought a new one about 5 years ago. She had so many problems with it that at 90,000 it went to the junk yard.
Then clearly you haven't driven the newer Z06s. They don't set track records because of a lack of handling, with just a big engine.
Here ya go, according to cars.com the top ten American manufacutred vehicles. Kind of surprising actually. http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&subject=ami&story=amMade0611 1. Toyota Camry Georgetown, Ky.; Lafayette, Ind. 1 2. Honda Accord Marysville, Ohio; Lincoln, Ala. 2 3. Chevrolet Malibu Kansas City, Kan. 5 4. Ford Explorer Chicago — 5. Honda Odyssey Lincoln, Ala. 6 6. Toyota Sienna Princeton, Ind. 10 7. Jeep Wrangler Toledo, Ohio 9 8. Chevrolet Traverse Lansing, Mich. — 9. Toyota Tundra San Antonio 8 10. GMC Acadia Lansing, Mich. — Excludes hybrid variants. The Camry excludes the related Venza; the Accord excludes the related Crosstour. Sources: Automaker data, Automotive News, dealership data, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
The thing about most Ford cars is most of them don't carry a lot of torque to them. I have always thought the Ford Fusion and and Focus where nice but the are weak in power.
Ya Mazda is in pretty bad shape with all the great lease programs they did for people a few years ago. Now they are stuck with all these cars people have turn in at the end of there lease and there turn over ratio on them is not that great.
Pretty much all VWs (except maybe the SUVs or Eurovans) seem like they're kind of for the ladies. The bug is just more over the top.
What are you talking about? I see lots of guys driving VW's around and they are good fun cars to drive.
