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Harley

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Ugly!
 

Coup d'etat

Forward assist bolt?
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Mechanical nightmare. Maintenance nightmare. Reliability is horrendous.
Better off with a Lexus or Acura
 

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5yr bumper to bumper. Takes all the worry out of the equation.
If you only plan to own the vehicle for 5 years. I’m on year 7 with my Volvo.
 

Kinoons

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I've never had ANY car for more than 4 years. Most 2-3
Then it works for you. I would wager that isn’t the case for the majority of people.
 

Fogie

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Is it electric?
 

tbirdsc

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I've never had ANY car for more than 4 years. Most 2-3
Same here - nothing over 35000 miles too .....................................until I got married......................but let me quantify - because of financial decisions like that - We both got to retire at 59-1/2 :)
 

tdyoung58

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Audi .... Can afford the car
It's the maintained bills that will kill ya
 

tdyoung58

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Then it works for you. I would wager that isn’t the case for the majority of people.
For sure .... My Dakota is a 2004 and my Subaru a 2009. Drive them till their dead.

Just put a motor in my Subaru at 153k. (Plastic radiator puked, overheated and toasted the motor)

I hate car payments.
 

Just an Average Joe

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Not when you try to trade it in or resell the pig. German cars have terrible residual value for a reason. They are junk.

They aren't reliable like Japanese, and even Korean cars, but they are definitely not junk, especially if you like to drive a performance automobile. If you want junk look at your typical base GM car.

I've owned a lot of cars, and to this day the nicest car that I've ever owned, and that I still miss, was an MB E63 AMG.
Cost of ownership was also probably the highest of any car I've ever owned, even when spreading it out over the 7 years that I owned it, but you wanna play, you gotta pay. (ETA: a large part of the cost was about $1000+ every year in tires alone, with 507HP and 465 ft lbs of torque, it shredded a pair of rear tires every 8-10 months, with front tires lasting maybe twice that (was still a heavy car that handled surprisingly well, so the fronts took a beating too).

To each his own.
 
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bullseyeman

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They aren't reliable like Japanese, and even Korean cars, but they are definitely not junk, especially if you like to drive a performance automobile. If you want junk look at your typical base GM car.

I've owned a lot of cars, and to this day the nicest car that I've ever owned, and that I still miss, was an MB E63 AMG.
Cost of ownership was also probably the highest of any car I've ever owned, even when spreading it out over the 7 years that I owned it, but you wanna play, you gotta pay.

To each his own.
Bingo!