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Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets
no. if you look through the rest of this thread and heaps of other threads youŽll see plenty of people boasting about how their car gets 21mpg. if any car of mine was getting that iŽd be looking underneath expecting to see petrol leaking out.
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Man, that is ACTUALLY what happened to MY 1997 Golf here in Iceland!!! I love that car... it gets around 30 mpg around town, and more like 35 in highways, but sometime this spring I started noticing what looked like an oil slick coming from the passenger side of the car. It wasn't oil... the fuel filter was all rusted to hell (don'tcha love the Icelandic roads in winter?), and once that was replaced, she was running good as new.
I echo the call to buy used!!
And drive 'em into the ground.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I don't know where he got them from but lease turnovers, which drove a good portion of the market in the 90s and today, are that term.
Only people I know who outright purchased their car has kept them for longer durations.
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Well, that would be everyone I know.
Lease turnovers? I've heard of those in Iceland (they loooooooove to buy new, throw 'em out the next year, buy new again), but in the US, not in my crowd apparently. Go figure.