To anyone who needs to know, this is a 100% true fact and you should listen. If you can't afford two Benzes, you can't afford one Benz. Meanwhile you can take a twenty year old Honda, pack the engine compartment completely full of peanut butter, throw it in the ocean, and it'll fire right up once you fish it back out again.
And in the case of a Toyota Helix you can set it on fire and set it atop a building that's being demolished then demolish the building along with what you said and it will keep working.
Hilux
Yeah Mercedes got super greedy.
Just hit today on my 2010 corolla, I've put like 6k into this car which includes tires in the 8 years I've driven it. #toyotagang
I had about 260k on my 2012 nissan rogue. It was a decent car for New England weather until it needed ball joints every 4 months and started getting 17 mpg (it was supposed to get 25-30 mpg).
Why is the boykisser asking the gogo fume huffer about his transmission?
shoutout to shitboxes that last forever
gotta be one of my favorite genders
This guy's videos are only slightly lower pitched and slightly less annoying than the sound of a smoke detector. But the smoke detector tells me something I actually need to know.
Subaru: What am I, chopped liver?
Oof ouch my head gaskets
2008 Inpreza at 100k miles:
bless you Scotty Kilmer, the angry ranting boomer car dad we all need
the thumbnail edits of his videos out there are my favorite thing
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It's just a shame Toyotas are so expensive, especially used.
Consider looking at Scions - they are Toyotas, just with a different badge. They are way cheaper and still incredibly reliable.
Exceptions: Scion FR-S is a Subaru engine. Scion iA is a rebadged Mazda.
you'll never save as much money as by just not buying a car in the first place
No joke Mercedes tried to pass off the wiring harnesses rotting out of their cars made in the 90's as the wiring harnesses being "biodegradable"
I know this because my dad bought a couple Mercedes from the 90s and I watched him remake and change the harnesses in both, insisting they were well engineered, quality cars
After he had to scrap one of them he no longer insists they are quality cars
The protective cover is biodegradable.
Honda did the same thing back in early 2010's. They have Honda branded spicy tape now.
I had to explain this to a co-worker who was taking his 7+ year old Merc to the shop about once a month. Nevermind the overall cost on those repairs was higher than a car payment.
Basically these luxury brands and purchases are a flex. They're supposed to be a dubious and conspicuous fiscal move. The engineering is absolutely not intended to outlast the loan period, and will actively punish you for every breakdown. You're also supposed to basically throw it away for another one at the 3-5 year mark. As a bonus, this insanity ensures that there are few old, scratched, dented, beaters on the roads, which adds to the overall optics of the situation. It's all intended to be expensive, exclusive, and therefore highly desirable*.
The expense is also not just parts, but labor. Back on r/justrolledintotheshop, BMW "front end removal" was practically a meme because it's the first step in a good number of maintenance procedures. These perfectly working luxury cars basically generate dealership labor hours, like clockwork.
/rant
(* Unless you don't practice conspicuous consumption and aren't taken in by advertising. Then this this all looks like pants-on-head crazy talk.)
upvote cause cute animation
Currently looking at some series 1/2 SLK 200s even tho I really shouldn't... why are other cute little 2 seater cabrio roadsters with metal folding roofs so rare to find at that price racket...
Posing the question is answering it; because the quality is so-so. These things require regular maintenance and after 25 years, there's a change that the 5th owner didn't care that much.
SLKs are pretty solid. I'd say rust is the main concern with these cars.
Love Scotty!
