On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:12:22 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 09/27/2015 11:09 PM, Muggles wrote:
I hear good and bad stuff about every car I've considered buying. sigh

My last three cars were declared to be absolutely something to be
avoided by Consumer Reports. I would have bought another Geo (rebranded
Suzuki) but Suzuki's car business was fading fast by then. I did buy
another Yaris after a snowplow ate the first one.

Maybe I'm easy to please. I've only owned one car I was dissatisfied
with, an Audi. To be fair, that was back in the '70s when Volkswagen was
trying to figure out how to build a front wheel drive, water cooled
vehicle.
One of those Audi 100s that punctured it's own tires when you parked
them overnight (when the springs broke)?

We had one sitting on the lot that destroyed 3 tires before it was
sold.

I owned a Pontiac Firenza - a rebranded Vauxhaul Viva HC - everybody
said they were junk - "any f'rez'a yours aint no friends of mine" so I
got it REAL cheap. Friend was going to trade it (1972) on a new Lada
the first year they came to Canada - 1979 - so the Firenza was only 7
years old - and it was a "leftover" '72 - sold late in '73, so it was
rally only six years old - and they were only going to give him $75
for it with about 40,000 miles on it ( friend's wife drove it between
London Ontario and Kitchener going to teacher's college).

I bought it from him for something like $76 - and I still had it when
he was on his third Lada. I sold it to my new wife's friend/neighbour
for a few hundred dollars and she drove it another 7 years.

Parts were dirt cheap and available from GM dealers across Canada.
Clutch pedal broke (cable clutch) and a new one was something like
$6.00 - less than it would have cost to have it welded.