My thing with imports is limited to a few models which do the job I want them to better than anything else. I am a car guy and do not really care where a car comes from as long as it does it's job. I expect my daily driver to be able to do 50k miles of city driving a year., for 300-500k miles on one engine. In the 12 years I have worked in the pizza delivery industry, I have never seen a domestic that can do that. The only cars that have the reputation of indestructability in that industry are older Civics, Sentras, and Nissan and Toyota trucks. They have to be the most basic models with manual windows, transmissions and 4 cylinder engines. In that industry, I have seen S10's and Rangers used, but the S10's are lucky to go 175k miles and the rangers will go maybe 220k. Cavaliers? Forget it. If they go 100k without a major failure it's amazing. I did see a Neon go 220k but it was totally shot when finished, and have seen Escorts that have been surprisingly good at taking abuse. I have seen a 95 Nissan truck with 320k, know of a 85 Nissan truck with 500k, have 266k on my Nissan, etc. Mine even went 200k miles on the factory clutch, 260k on the original starter, still has it's original brake hydraulics, rotors and drums, original engine with no oil use or leaks, etc. I am the original owner and started using it as a pizza delivery vehicle 1 day after it came off the dealer's lot. It also still manages to get 23mpg in the city doing deliveries, the same as it did when new. All of the original sensors, injectors, etc still work fine and with the exception of the O2 sensor ( did it a few months ago) are the ones that came with the truck new.
Anyhow, the whole Import/Domestic squabble is really pointless to me. People like what they like, and if they like making their car perform better I can get into whatever someone else's project it as long as they are not an *******.
Anyhow, the whole Import/Domestic squabble is really pointless to me. People like what they like, and if they like making their car perform better I can get into whatever someone else's project it as long as they are not an *******.
