FrankieSpankie3388 wrote:
Then you're incredibly lucky. My brother worked for a towing company for 3 years. Towed an average of 6-10 cars a day. He told me the most common car he towed was Toyota and Honda (but that's obvious because they're from Japan and we all know Jap cars suck) but then the most common American car was a Ford. He always complained because all the cars he'd tow, except for the GM cars, were so cheap that whenever he'd hook them up, he'd tear up the frame putting it on the back of the truck. I will never want a Mustang GT, and I don't care about the "best bang for the buck" because in the long run, it's not the best. Again, he told me just out of pure experience, the most common car with problems from America was a Ford.
He's also owned nothing but Chevys. Only two of his cars were in pretty bad accidents. The first was his S10 pick up at college. It was at the parking lot on a corner and some idiot in a Mazda was driving and made the turn way too early, ended up lifting up my brothers truck onto a Toyota. His S10 was the only one that drove away, the other two had to be towed, again, obvious crap Japanese cars. Second was his Chevy Caprice, now mine. He was driving down the highway at the average speed one goes down the highway. The truck's brakelights were busted in front of him and made a quick turn to change lanes. Before he knew it the truck was pretty much stopped and he couldn't do anything. He quickly swerved to the right, slammed into the guardrail, scraped paint with a car to his left pretty badly, and then nailed a car that was parked on the side of the highway. The car he scraped paint with didn't believe my brother hit him because he thought the Caprice didn't look bad enough for the damage done to his car. The other car was totally crushed, it pretty much had no trunk at that point. And again, the Caprice drove away without a problem. His only problem was that he had to climb out the window because the door was jammed.
Tough luck for your brother, but I'd still never buy a Chevy. Ugly and overpriced from my perspective. But, to each his own.
Smallest things I've ever had problems with was a hose leaking on my 02 F150. I traded it in for the Mustang and never looked back. The trick is to not drive your car into the ground.
All my friends wanted me to fuck around in my stang when I got it, burnouts and hard revving. I have more respect and said no, because treating your engine like shit will just cause it to fuck up in the long run. Change the oil every 3-5k miles and you're set for life. I worked with mechanics and service advisors/managers that told me point blank to never do anything but change the oil and your car will run forever, if you don't run it into the ground.
I'm young though. There will be other sport cars in the future. Probably better ones at that.
