The end of production for the Nissan Versa means there are no new cars priced under $20,000 — a blow to some Americans who may find themselves priced out of the market.
Sure maybe an inline motor from the 40-50’s with a manual transmission, drum brakes and manual steering was more reliable. Basically an old school farm tractor.
I think you are looking at survivability bias. The old cars left running are reliable, the unreliable ones were scrapped long ago.
Ease of repair is not the same as reliability.
My new cars are toasters. I change the oil, rotate the tires and swap out brake pads. When things go ‘wrong’ they continue to drive. A bad o2 sensor goes into an error state but the car still drives. It doesn’t just stall at each and every stop.
My 2012 nissan blows the doors clean off myold 76/77? pontiac lemans.
In the ~100k I had my Nissan I have not had to rebuild my fuel injection system but in the ~100k I had my mechanically simple Pontiac I had the carb rebuilt 3x times, and it should have been 4. Carb rebuilding was regular maintenance and it pretty much required to have a functional car. That isn’t the constant changing of gaskets required to keep it from dripping oil or blowing smoke.
It had a rock solid 305. It was much more reliable than any of the cars I got in the 80s when the transition happened to computers. I had an engine fall out of my 85 pontiac. It ran so rough in winter it rattled the engine mounting bolts out. I did have to replace the fuel injection system on my mid 90’s GM, but that car pretty reliable.
I got flashback to fixing fucking vacuum leaks. God damn why not just replace ALL the lines , still not it ? FUCK!
I traded a bus and reader that will tell me what is wrong for a chiltons and vacuum system.
I loved being young. I loved the freedom of going where I wanted when I wanted. I loved gas so cheap I would just take a drive to clear my head. The old cars were finicky and required constant attention. They just weren’t build to last more than 10 years.
Sure maybe an inline motor from the 40-50’s with a manual transmission, drum brakes and manual steering was more reliable. Basically an old school farm tractor.
I think you are looking at survivability bias. The old cars left running are reliable, the unreliable ones were scrapped long ago.
Ease of repair is not the same as reliability.
My new cars are toasters. I change the oil, rotate the tires and swap out brake pads. When things go ‘wrong’ they continue to drive. A bad o2 sensor goes into an error state but the car still drives. It doesn’t just stall at each and every stop.
My 2012 nissan blows the doors clean off myold 76/77? pontiac lemans.
In the ~100k I had my Nissan I have not had to rebuild my fuel injection system but in the ~100k I had my mechanically simple Pontiac I had the carb rebuilt 3x times, and it should have been 4. Carb rebuilding was regular maintenance and it pretty much required to have a functional car. That isn’t the constant changing of gaskets required to keep it from dripping oil or blowing smoke.
It had a rock solid 305. It was much more reliable than any of the cars I got in the 80s when the transition happened to computers. I had an engine fall out of my 85 pontiac. It ran so rough in winter it rattled the engine mounting bolts out. I did have to replace the fuel injection system on my mid 90’s GM, but that car pretty reliable.
I got flashback to fixing fucking vacuum leaks. God damn why not just replace ALL the lines , still not it ? FUCK!
I traded a bus and reader that will tell me what is wrong for a chiltons and vacuum system.
I loved being young. I loved the freedom of going where I wanted when I wanted. I loved gas so cheap I would just take a drive to clear my head. The old cars were finicky and required constant attention. They just weren’t build to last more than 10 years.