Longest lasting vehicles on the road
Here is a link to survey data from USA Today for the percentage of vehicle types with over 200,000 miles on them. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/02/23/long-lasting-200000-miles/57047...
Forum Discussion
I think there should be a mandatory statistics class required along with registering for any internet forum. Just because you own vehicle brand Z and ran it into the ground for 30 years w/o changing the oil doesn't mean brand Z is better than the others. It means you were lucky.
You could walk into a casino and pull the handle once and win $250 on a $5 bet but that doesn't mean you should do it regularly.
The same thing works in the other direction, too. You buy brand Y, do all the maintenance and the engine blows a rod at 101K miles (just out of warranty). You can stomp around and swear up and down brand Y sucks but it's just statistics. Brand Y still may be the most reliable brand on a list. Just because you didn't have the normal experience doesn't change reality.
In the end it's largely just the inability of many people to see things from any view other than their own.
It's like my grandfather told me.... All Indians walk in single file. The only one I ever saw did :)
You could walk into a casino and pull the handle once and win $250 on a $5 bet but that doesn't mean you should do it regularly.
The same thing works in the other direction, too. You buy brand Y, do all the maintenance and the engine blows a rod at 101K miles (just out of warranty). You can stomp around and swear up and down brand Y sucks but it's just statistics. Brand Y still may be the most reliable brand on a list. Just because you didn't have the normal experience doesn't change reality.
In the end it's largely just the inability of many people to see things from any view other than their own.
It's like my grandfather told me.... All Indians walk in single file. The only one I ever saw did :)
