Toyota camry has only lost once in the last 23 years. Jfc.
It's a good car. Most Jap mobiles are decent.
My Jap mobiles are like 15 to 20 years old and run like champs. Only thing that lasted that long was my dead godmother's Mercedes 190e. She loved that car, it was in an accident and the car burned to a crisp. She died of cancer a year later.
She was such a strong woman, built a business out of nothing, lost the business, and everything. Built herself back up, only to die of cancer.
I prefer Hondas over Toyota. Toyotas are great people carriers but Hondas actually have some torque and ability. They last just as long and their resale value is higher.
I have an S2k with 212k miles on the clock on it's 3rd engine. I have a super low mile AP2 with 38k miles now, nearly showroom. A cbr600, and an CR-V. Anyone that likes Hondas is A ok in my book. The first car I ever rode in the driver's seat was a Civic, my old man would let me steer while he used the pedals. I discovered the closest route to grandma's house. That civic got us everywhere in Peru, never gave us a problem until my mom broke the rear view mirror, she's had horrible luck with cars since.
you could pretty much replace the cutlass and the escort and taurus with Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon and you get almost identical results. Camrys were built around the corner from me here for 40 years.
GM America demanded bailout money from the Australian government simply because they owned the Holden brand which was fully profitable and got told to go fuck themselves, so they raped a multi billion dollar investment in the VE/VF Commodore which was actually available in the us but they never advertised because they didnt want it to sell and announced they were shutting down our factories, then went and opened a new plant in mexico and payed GM workers a fat bonus and started importing shit korean cars aussies would refuse to buy, intentionally branded a front wheel drive hatchback piece of shit with some crap 2 litre engine a 'Commodore' (it probably would have sold if they had just called it 'Insignia' which is what it is... as it happened, no one who had bought commodores for decades would go near them) and shut down a 100 year old brand. Ford then decided they didnt have to compete locally anymore and shut down their manufacturing here and fucking up Geelong, and then Toyota just shrugged their shoulders and fucked off as well.
Oh before shutting everything down, just to fuck with us a bit more, see that chart up the top there i compared with our cars? Yeah all of those brands went 'oh Australians dont want family sedans anymore, no one buys them (despite Camry) Australia wants SUVs!' and then started pumping out shit toy steroidal two wheel drives, or over the top massive 8 litre trucks that cost upwards of $80,000 for less than what youd get in a decent traditional 4wd. (looking at you Raptor and Laramie)
Funny thing with the Ford shit they build now is other people can link your car to their fucking phone and do all kinds of funky shit with the ford app (remote starting, tracking, shutdown, etc) which got to be a bit of a problem with rentals in the US for a while.
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