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Replying to: mediapusher (Apr 06, 2007 5:43 pm) Well that would depend on how much city stop and go driving he does. Someone like me driving in the traffic we have here I seriously doubt I could get half that on a clutch in my daily drive. I had to replace my transmission at 160,000 miles, I had a Chevy that went almost 300K miles on the same tranny. that is until the guy who bought it from me "accidently" put it in reverse going 60 MPH.
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Replying to: lemko (Apr 06, 2007 5:08 pm)
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Replying to: mediapusher (Apr 06, 2007 5:51 pm) Personally if you gave me a Lexus I would crush it into a cube and send it back to you COD.
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Apr 06, 2007 5:51 pm) Keep in mind I have a $7,000 Toyota Corolla (that's what I paid for it) That amount of miles to me is a what you'd find on most ten year old cars, so the fact I had to replace the tranny at 160,000, I don't think is too bad. And damn, I drove that car hard. I tortured it with driving. 300 miles per day is too much for a car like mine. I have not had anything weird go wrong with the car, like brake manifolds falling off or water pump failing, or head gaskets blowing, etc...crankshaft suddenly falling, etc.. |
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Replying to: mediapusher (Apr 06, 2007 5:58 pm)
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Apr 06, 2007 5:53 pm)  doesn't care about the quality of the cars they build for the U.S.A. market, for whatever reason. I don't really understand why. Just the idea that people are so heated about how well Lexus can compete with Mercedes and totally jumps over Cadillac says leaps and bounds about Lexus  in a positive way and leaps and bounds about Cadillac in a negative way. Lexus has only been around since 1990 (a mere 17 years) Cadillac has been around for 100 years and still can't compete I realize Lexus is actually Toyota, however their luxury division has only been around as we know it for 17 years. GM has been faced with serious competition for twice that amount of time and still can't compete --so it goes beyond the fact they make bad products...
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 06, 2007 6:12 pm) It shouldn't be the luck of the draw, but who knows. I don't have all the answers. I can only go by my own experience. I don't abuse cars, and I don't tend to buy automatic transmission, if that makes any difference. I can't stand cars with automatic transmissions. They're BORING. Can you spell B-O-R-I-N-G? My experience with Hondas and Toyotas have been very good. I sure do miss my Honda Accord EX sedan with the sunroof and power everything and trunkwing. Talk about envious stares that I used to get. Man do I miss that car. It was like riding a tight cloud. I'm probably going to buy another one, and just keep it forever and buy a new engine for it. Who knows, there are so many good and diverse choices when it comes to cars these days |
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Good luck when the automatic goes in that Lexus. $3500 versus $1600 for the GM. And the list goes on and on. The imports are getting almost as pricey to maintain as Mercedes and BMW. My mother's 2001 LeSabre is running perfectly fine - been in the shop once in its life for a broken sensor, which is pretty routine on a car with almost 80K miles on it. The GM of today isn't the GM of 1980.
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Replying to: mediapusher (Apr 06, 2007 6:14 pm) No prejudice here, I have a major issue with Toyota that has some lawyers involved and it has nothing to do with cars. And you should follow your own advice. |
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So this forum went from talking about Cadillac, to become the bash everything GM, forum.  I've never read so much propaganda in 10-15 minutes in my whole life. I feel I might of lowered my I.Q.  As imidazol97, has pointed out the statistics say different but I guess since it's GM, the facts don't apply.  Yeah I know every GM, car ever made is a Rocky
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