On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 7:44:54 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-09-03 12:57 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
>
> > It's a Dodge - most unusual! My dad only bought Dodge. I don't know
> > why. I tried to get him to buy a Toyota or a Hyundai but no deal.
> >
> > Most Dodge have aggressive names like Challenger, Avenger, Charger,
> > Ram, Caliber, Prowler, Dart, Viper etc., and you go and name yours
> > "Baby." Hoo ha!
>
> Funny how people have brand loyalty. I worked for in our district garage
> for more than 10 years and we had a fleet or more than 250 cars, pickups
> and trucks. Given my experience there and elsewhere, I would never buy a
> Dodge-Chrysler product. When it came to cars and pickups, the Fords
> were by far the most reliable and longest lasting.
>
> The only really good Big Three car I ever had was my mother's old Buick.
> Given my experience with Ford dealerships, who treat their franchise as
> a license to steel, I won't ever buy another Ford. Nor would I buy
> another GM. Other than my mother's old Buick, the only cars I have owned
> over the last 25 years have been a Mazda, two Hondas and a Toyota.

He used to have GM cars. I can recall a Cutless Ciera and a Chevy Lumina. I used to have to replace the front brakes on those cars frequently. My guess is that he would use the brakes more frequently than most people but mostly it was because the brakes were designed to do that.

My guess is that he got dissed by one of the dealers and vowed to never buy a GM product again. That, I suppose, was fine with me.