On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 12:44:54 PM UTC-5, 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.

I have a 9 YO Chevy Aveo5 that has never given me a single problem except that the clock is messed up.

--Bryan