http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/109278/worst-made-cars-on-the-road?mod=family-home

Yup, Foreign cars are the best.

Isn't the Aveo really a Suzuki?

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

nah its a Daewoooooo

my step dad has the first gen Aveo and its got Daewoo all over it

They pronounce it "Day-oh". Both the a and the o are long vowels.

But mangling a translation is nothing new from that part of the world. Have you ever read the owner's manual from a Honda?

"Don't drink the water in the Battery." I must admit that is good advice, but......

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My Kubota diesel tractor manual warns against "radiator fur".

Jim

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles

Way back in 1971 I had a Datsun 510, and I bought the Clymer repair manual for it. It was a direct word-for-word translation of the original Japanese. Many sentences required a lot of thinking to understand what they might have meant.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

Meh, my truck has been fantastic. Cheapest vehical I have ever owned to run.

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2006 CL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

Motor controller for an electric vehicle I own was made in Italy. Same results for the direct word-for-word translation of the factory manual, PLUS all the schematics were still labeled in Italian.

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Just say "NO" to Ethanol - Drive Diesel

Mitchell Oates
Mooresville, NC
'87 300D 212K miles
'87 300D 151K miles - R.I.P. 12/08
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD 67K miles
Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club

Ford has really stepped up, wish I could say the same for GM and Chrysler.

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-1983 VW Rabbit LS Diesel (5speed, VNT/Giles build)

Prior to Ford's recent improvement, the only domestic cars I could stomach are the Corvette and Chrysler 300. I wanted to buy American so I got a 300 and its been pretty good so far. The rest of their lineup ranges from junk to unimpressive. But I think things will change this year when they finally come out with some new stuff.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

That's what you get when you engineer for a price point.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Amen to that. We operate 2 thermal energy plants on the UTSA campus, the original is over 35 years old, the newer one is only 2 years old. Guess which one is now having the most problems with equipment going FUBAR?

I told the plant manager there's a simple explanation for that - 35 years ago, they built the original plant to spec. 2 years ago, they built the new plant to cost.

What's scary is that he completely agreed with me.

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Just say "NO" to Ethanol - Drive Diesel

Mitchell Oates
Mooresville, NC
'87 300D 212K miles
'87 300D 151K miles - R.I.P. 12/08
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD 67K miles
Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club

Just bought a 10 Fusion, and it seems very good so far. After I buy it I find out it was the M/T car of the year.

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79 MB 280 SEL Euro 133k
77 MB 450SL 154k
05 Mustang GT Vert (3) 104k
12 TSX Wagon Tech (66k) (192k)
06 Subaru Outback base (135k) 164k
16 Acura MDX (109k) 111k
18 Silverado 2500 LTZ Midnight (212) 56k
97 Ford Ranger 163k
11 RAV4 154k
01 Escape 173k
04 Honda Pilot 292k
1967 Mustang (Resto Project)
1968 Mustang (Parts Bin)
00 Ford Ranger 124k