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62 MPG City 50 MPG Hwy I drive a 2014 Toyota Prius C. It was $19,000 out the door.

Yes, you are crazy :-). You are way way too worried about nothing. Follow Honda's advise, and keep the factory fill in till 10% left. Let the break in fluids do their job. And NO you have not left the FF in too long, as was suggested here. Keeping it in long will not do any damage to your...

I think ALL cars should analyze the air inside the car, for alcohol levels. A sensor in the HVAC. If the levels are too high, the car can still be driven, but signal is sent to law enforcement as a POSSIBLE problem driver. I think ALL cars should do the same thing for texting that is going on...

Originally Posted By: blackman777 I don't recall my kids ever saying, "Dad I want you to make a lot of money." More often it is, "Can you come play with me?" Retiring a decade early doesn't benefit my kids..... they will have already grown-up and moved out (and playtime is over). It is wiser to...

Originally Posted By: blackman777 Originally Posted By: lovcom Originally Posted By: blackman777 You make a good point but..... I already work 5 days a week. Am I expected to work Saturdays & Sundays too, just to learn the new tech? (Most companies will say "yes" but I like to use weekends for...

Originally Posted By: EricF Next friday my Mom & I are going to get a 2014 Cruze, 1.6L gas no turbo. She has a 2003 Saturn Ion quad coupe with the CVT tranny that is working itself out of functionality. So GM ok'd a $5000 rebate on a new GM. So the dealer made it happen and now they're pulling...

Originally Posted By: blackman777 You make a good point but..... I already work 5 days a week. Am I expected to work Saturdays & Sundays too, just to learn the new tech? (Most companies will say "yes" but I like to use weekends for family time, while the kids are still kids, not teens that no...

Originally Posted By: jeepman3071 Originally Posted By: lovcom Cars are very easy to work on. You just have to have the training. That's a pretty weak argument. You can have all the training in the world, that doesn't mean taking apart an entire dash of a vehicle to fix the HVAC becomes any...

Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle Yes, if you trade every few years, its great. When you discover that your car now needs a $1000+ repair because a wire broke (seen it!), not so much! Note: after 34 years, the low-tech HVAC system in my F350 works perfectly! Not very scientific. One F350. Just...

Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle Clearly, you have never had to replace an electronic HVAC control! The bill is eye-popping. Yes I get what you're saying, but that is just ONE instance of a problem. For most folks, electronics never go out for the entire life of their car; no moving parts. And...

Originally Posted By: JHZR2 Originally Posted By: hattaresguy I rather just lease a new 528XI for $600 a month and write it off, and never pop the hood once or do anything to it. Except that leasing for the bulk of the population is the greatest ripoff in the automotive sector, and fosters a...

Am I the only 53+ year old that loves, embraces, and sees the reality of better reliability, that ONLY progress and technology has given us in today's late model cars?!? LOTS of out of touch folks posting on this thread. Wow!!

Around, around, around, vroom, vroom....how boring and stupid. What a stupid sport. It's not even a sport...it's idiocy. Oval track for the trailer park set....hahahahaha....

Cars are easier to diagnose, work on, and fix then ever in the history of cars. Often a tech need only plug the car into their computer, and the car tells the tech which part is faulty, what the problem is, or at least points them in the right direction. There are too many millions of late...

Depreciation is irrelevent if one is going to keep the car for the car's entire lifetime. My 2007 Yaris with power windows, mirrors, CD, A/T cost me cash $13,800 out the door. At 160,000 miles it has cost me $0.00 in repairs. I just maintain it and gas it. Nothing else. Had I bought any of...

I have trusted CR for decades and rarely seen them miss the mark. Only those that own the cars CR hates (and for good reason) talk [censored] against CR. Usually Chrysler, LandRover, and some German car owners are the ones that hate CR. Reality is too painful for them.

In the mornings in Chicago winter, I start the car up, place a brick on the gas pedal, which holds the RPM's to 6,000, then go inside and have a nice 15 minute breakfast. By the time I drive off, the car is 210F and it's all toasty and nice.

In 2013, an AT that is controlled by a computer chip, and having 5, 6, 7 gears will almost always outdo a human, given the same exact car. You can tell the AT what is up ahead, what to anticipate with your right foot on the gas. Even AT's have some "manualness" to them.

Originally Posted By: VNTS I worked in a garage in the late 70's to mid 80's part time while in high school and college. cant tell you how many Honda cam shafts and head gaskets we did on those things. It helped put me thru school LOL I would harldy call any Honda or toyota from 70-s thru 90's...

Fords and Mercury's of the '90s were ALL [censored]. When you compare them against the Japanese cars of that day, they were junk in regards to dependability. You cannot look at the few exceptions that went a billion miles....look at the millions and read the reviews of the day...the truth lies...