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Preview from Europe: Market Rally Was Running on Empty

I got to underline what U 316752 said about American cars.

Being a native German I drove quite a few European cars including BMW, Mercedes, VW with every mainenance bill touching 1000- 2000 DM, say $ 500 - 1000 a shot. And that was 10 years ago.

I then had a Buick (4 x oil change for $25, filters and a rubber belt replacement over 30,000 mi) and an Explorer for 10 years. I never had more robust and inexpensive cars to maintain. Yes, they use more gas but look at the totality of the bills. It would not be good if Ford or its peer companies disappear. But they got to shape up.