Hey guys! Thank you! Good to see you again, been quite awhile.
I do agree with your rant huxter! One does tend to forget, but I remember the cars I drove in high school and college, and they were always getting unreliable by 90,000 to 100,000 miles, and were usually towed to the scrapyard by 130,000 miles. If I sit down and think, I remember clogged jets, stuck chokes, burned points, leaky vacuum lines on distributors, cracked distributor caps, bad coils, water pumps, master cylinders and alternators that only lasted 25,000 miles between replacements, A/C systems that went dead by the car’s 3rd year, frequent tune ups needed or they would run like garbage, 2,500 mile oil change and lube intervals, etc, etc...
By comparison, the 176,000 relatively hassle free miles I got out of the last Boxster begins to look like a miracle... all that time and not one legitimate breakdown.
My 240,000 mile Toyota that flat refuses to ever need anything and I can still drive to Canada tomorrow, or my 74,000 mile 911 that still drives like brand new. We can definitely get spoiled.
