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Originally Posted by askjeffro
I have to disagree.
I am not "loyal" to any particular brand, I buy the car I want at the time I am looking, end of story.
Anyway, I can say without bias that my "American" cars have been more reliable, and had less costs with regards to ownership then the imports I have owned. Hell, my WRX with less then 7500 miles has had more issues already then my Focus with 110k.
Regarding your "evidence" of junk yards, thats a nearly bogus metric as its relative to local sales levels. Furthermore, imports cost more to repair and as a result many of them are diverted from junk yards and are immediately parted out as their parts are worth more.
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Agree on this.
When I lived in Chicago (when I was in high school I was a 'gear head' and we used to bone pick junkyards for parts for our cars) and the majority of the cars in the boneyard where late '70s domestic. But this was in 1996-98 so 1)in the late '70s domestics held a high market share 2)the cars where 16-20 years old 3) most people in the midwest drive domestic.
Three years ago I needed to get a new power seat track so I went to every junk yard around Orlando...
I would say that there where slightly more foriegn cars that where newer (lots of earlier 90's stuf). There where some domestic cars but most where as you said (late '80's Berettas, Sunbirds, mini-vans.
So in Orlando, where more people made the switch to Japanese cars eariler, the junkyard told a different story.