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Since this thread is not meant to be serious, I will not bother with comments on how meaningless generalizations are. Just for fun worst to least worst top five:
1. Boy racer cars (WRX, Neon SRT4, etc).
2. Smug "I am more important than you" driver cars (Caddillac, Audi, Mercedes)
3. Whoopties that should probably not be on the freeway. (Honda Civics seem most common, but any make or model can qualify).
4. Soccer Mom cars (Dodge Caravan, Cherokee, Volvo Wagons, Dodge Charger - why are they always Dodge vehicles?)
5. Car purchased based on "Cuteness or cute ads (Soul, Fiat, Yaris, VW Bug, Smart).
You do realize that 1977 is 36 (THIRTY SIX) years ago, right?
A LOT has changed since 1977, namely the oil crisis and the expansion of the European and Asian car companies.
That was 9 years before Hyundai existed in the US. Obviously Kia didn't exist yet. Sure, there was Datsun, but there was no Infiniti or Nissan. Ditto for Lexus and Acura. BMW, VW and Mercedes have all improved greatly.
Then again, why are we even listening to the opinion of someone who quotes a THIRTY-SIX year old article about which cars are more reliable?
I mentioned that letter because someone brought up 1960s and 1970s cars.
- Worst dangers on the road: Young white boys driving VWs, like the GTI, Golf, Jetta, etc. Doubly true if they're wearing a baseball hat backwards. These clowns are too inexperienced and think it's the Indy 500 out there, weaving in/out of traffic, cutting people off, speeding 20-30 above the limit, doing everything wrong.
Agreed, coming from the standpoint of a white guy who was way into VW's and drove a hopped-up, then-new Jetta VR6 when he was 20.
There's a general attitude amongst many young VW owners that can basically be summed up thus: "At least it's not a Honda."
Around here it seems to be full sized trucks. They're either driven by old men who go under the speed limit, or they're driven by teenage boys that lift them and then tailgate you (with bright purple HID lights).
Add my Ford Explorer and Jeep Grand Cherokee to that list.
My German and Japanese cars have lasted forever and rarely had to be in the shop, not so much with my American cars. Plus, American cars are always 5-10 years behind the competition now. They are generally very ugly on the outside and generic on the inside. The performance is mediocre too.
A huge amount of foreign cars are ugly, too. And class for class, performance of American cars is about the same, if not better, than foreign cars.
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Then again, we're trying to convince a guy who believes that "Fox News Rules" and who has expressed many opinions on this board which reveal a certain kind of personality and set of opinions. He's one of those Amurika! types...you know the type, the kind of person who watches Fox "News" and takes every Glenn Beck "fact" as truth while blaming every problem in the world on "liberals" (or his delusion of what "liberals" are).
WAAAAAAAY off-topic. Political comments belong in the political forum. You should know better than that.
To be fair, that is a reasonable point. It's not a Honda.
I thought the same thing until I started driving around the Hondas that the dealership I worked at took in on trade and realized they were generally more nimble, more fun to drive and, yes, often quicker... to say nothing about reliability.
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