My VW Polo - 250Mm on the clock (well, the mileage equivalent but I refuse to quote non-SI units). Been very reliable and cheap to run. I believe it has been my most reliable car yet. 2005 and still going strong. Don't see the need to replace it any time soon.
Sorry, I didn't realise there was time limit🙂
At present, Mrs toby drives an MX5, the 2nd one we've had in 20 years. A beautiful car, in our opinion😉.
There's only one German car that I find visually attractive, the Porsche 911. I owned one for a while when I was 22, many years ago😀
I have no desire or need to want another Porsche...
Audi TT, boy is that an ugly car? I know a few friends that have owned them and have had nothing but trouble with intermittent faults, so much for vorsprung durch technik😀
I don't have to look at my car whilst driving it, but I do have to look at my wife, so I set my priorities in order.
My Avensis has about 210,000km on it and no rattles, in fact less noise than my Passat made at the same age and a lot fewer bits replaced. I drive cars into the ground, so my Passat was sent to be made into something else at 475000km and it was completely shagged out. I do a lot fewer miles now so will never be able to repeat that but the avensis has another 10 years in it. No point having a nice car with kids anyway. Over the last 25 years they have trashed ever car I have owned.
I had an audi for a while, turned into a moneypit at about 120k miles, no feeling in the steering, first car where I could not feel if the tires were low on air. No class at all either
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Many years ago cars were for the wealthy, not so many of them on the road and style was fresh. The technology and reliability was awful but nothing else could get you from a to b in as much comfort at speed. As technology improved the old slow, unreliable and dangerous cars were replaced with safer, more reliable and better cars. They became so cheap that everyone has one. They’ve turned into appliances, they are as common as washing machines. The technology is now so good I would call it a mature technology, no doubt why they all look similar. I want my appliances to be reliable, safe, good value although car companies sure love to over sell people on cars they don’t need and can’t afford by selling them an outdated vision of car ownership.
I should be clear that most new cars leave me cold. My dream garage would mainly have things from the last century in it.
I'm not a car person, so I'd never be able to own something like a BMW. Knowing this, I've purchased very few autos new. A Toyota 4-Runner I did so in the early 90's, I managed to completely destroy the thing in < 10 years...
I took it to a Toyota dealership to trade in on a used pickup that appeared similar. I was desperate; needed something to get me to work as the motorcycle was freezing me to death...
They had some guy come out to assess it; he literally couldnt make it go. I had mallied the shifter to the point where only I could find the gears anymore - I think 1st or reverse didnt work at all. They took it anyway.
Got Xmas cards for years from the salesman in that place.
I took it to a Toyota dealership to trade in on a used pickup that appeared similar. I was desperate; needed something to get me to work as the motorcycle was freezing me to death...
They had some guy come out to assess it; he literally couldnt make it go. I had mallied the shifter to the point where only I could find the gears anymore - I think 1st or reverse didnt work at all. They took it anyway.
Got Xmas cards for years from the salesman in that place.
Want M3 performance on the cheap? Get a base Mustang V8 for 35K. Add a supercharger, beef up shocks and springs, add bigger wheels and tires for an extra 10K which all add up to 45K. Will beat any M3 or even Corvette.
But at the end of the day, it's still a Mustang.
But at the end of the day, it's still a Mustang.
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Our 1996 Honda Odyssey minivan is at 196,000 miles (>300,000 km).
Tomorrow it goes for new tires and the second wheel-alignment in its life. Tie-rod ends have been a sore spot since this Odyssey van is really an Accord sedan blown-up tall.
(I don't know if a 1996 Odyssey is really "Japanese". My 2002 Accord is 90% US-built; major Japanese part is the 5-speed gearbox which was rare in the US.)
Beware of trying to prove others you are better than they are by driving a sports vehicle. It'll pass once you are passed the age of 27.
My highest mileage vehicle was a 1996 Acura Integra that had just over 100k miles when I bought it. Drove it daily for 10 years and finally retired it after it hit 250k miles. The engine was fine but the body was rusted out. No major repairs in all that time except for having to replace the brake and fuel lines and eventually the gas tank. Winters are not kind to Japanese cars in the rust belt.
My daily commute is short so these days my car is an old Kia with 175k miles. I do miss the performance of that E550...
My daily commute is short so these days my car is an old Kia with 175k miles. I do miss the performance of that E550...
Surely, ic engined cars are past mature and due for obsolescence?
Depending how long my current car lasts it might be my last ic engine.
No worries, as long as there is fossil fuel, there wil be IC motors. They are not going to give up their profits easily. And the taxes will go up on account of current theories.
Have been working in automotive industry for 12 years as prduction engineer now.
Been working with BMW, VW, Mercedes, Ford, Hyundai,...
In the end, the differences are not so big.
85% of the parts of a car (motors, seats, electronics, cockpit, doors,....) are not assembled by the OEM, but by the suppliers.
And they are more or less the same for all.
Only what I've seen at Ford Motor Co. in Luisville, Kentucky scared me a bit...
Personally I'm not much into cars.
Driving a Volkswagen Golf now for 12 years, almost 300.000 km, no bigger issues so far.
Been working with BMW, VW, Mercedes, Ford, Hyundai,...
In the end, the differences are not so big.
85% of the parts of a car (motors, seats, electronics, cockpit, doors,....) are not assembled by the OEM, but by the suppliers.
And they are more or less the same for all.
Only what I've seen at Ford Motor Co. in Luisville, Kentucky scared me a bit...
Personally I'm not much into cars.
Driving a Volkswagen Golf now for 12 years, almost 300.000 km, no bigger issues so far.