(Toyota Camry) really tried to kill this car... that it's still driving
pretty well (95k miles) is a testament to it's original quality.



Doug Kanter wrote:
Last Saturday, on the PBS Car Talk show, a doctor called to say that his
wife wanted him to get rid of his Camry, with 95K miles, because she didn't
think it was proper for a doctor to drive a car that old.

Ha!

.... The caller was
looking for ammo for his ongoing debate with the mrs. The car guys made it
simple: They said that in Los Angeles, where the caller lived (no road salt,
in other words), a Camry with such low mileage wasn't even broken in yet.


And this is a problem for car mfrs. How do you sell new cars
when everybody already has one that will last for years? At
least the good ones don't put themselves out of business any
more, like Stutz & Studebaker.

Many people still have the 'buy a new Cadillac every year'
mentality but there are lots more things to spend your
conspicuous consumption dollars on nowadays. And the
industry is inevitably shrinking. Same problem affects other
industries too.

But of course, that's dangerous libby-rull traitor stuff.
Shuck just admitting that you listen to PBS will get your
family sent to the re-education camps.

DSK