NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/autos/32478

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From: [e-mail] (Eric Alter)
Subject: Re: Japanese cars never die!!!!
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:33:35 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
|>     I have a little automatic 2-wheel-drive '81 subaru GL wagon, and I
|> would just like to put in my 2 cents worth.  I boutht the car used 9 months
|> ago from a dealer.  I paid $1000.  Since then I have wrecked twice (only one
|> was my fault).  It ate a guardrail at over 60 miles an hour, and survived.
|> I also sideswiped a Bonneville at about 20 (I wasn't looking behind me when
|> I pulled out *embarrasment*).  I have put 18,000 miles on top of the 101,000
|> that were on it when I bought it.  Except for new brake pads (safety
|> precaution) I haven't done anything to it but change the oil and beat out
|> dents.  I put 2000 miles on it in the last two weeks, 1000 in two days.  It
|> has never failed.  Show me a chevette that can say that.
|>                 W. C. White
|>                 [e-mail]
|>
|>

Yeah, well most of the 10 year old Japanese cars I've seen are rolling pieces
of rust.  It's quite amazing that they even run given the condition I've seen
them in.

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Eric Alter