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Default [OT] Prius bashing

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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
For me, the attraction is the overall simplicity of the thing - which
equates (I hope!) to low maintenance costs....


Depends on how you cost your labour replacing engine bearings every 30k
miles.


There's something very wrong if you have bearing problems on a Minor 1000
at those miles. More than double that would be a decent average. The
earlier 803 cc engine didn't last long, though.

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