On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:35:45 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

Anybody not driving the most basic Japanese car available for 15-20
years has failed to "do the math".

I'm not sure I agree with that. We are now on a 20+ year string of
owning Japanese cars. We usually buy top of the line, fully loaded
models that offer just about everything you could want in comfort,
style, features, etc. The big pay off is not fuel efficiency, but
durability and reliability. These cars just keep running, do not
nickel and dime you to death with petty maintenance issues, and do not
leave you stranded in the middle of a road trip just because they have
over 80K miles on them.

That's worth a lot to me.