Built like a Mercedes 3670You want to REALLY abuse a car?? Take a little car like a 1967 204 Peugot wagon, put 4 full sized adults in it (2 big men, one scrawny Limey runt, and a 5...
Perhaps you think that is a real pounding, but reality tells me that use in the States can be very harsh to a car that isn't designed here in the States. Like it or not, each region has its own design characteristics. Stuff designed outside the states tends to be less than up to the task here in the States. I hate to say it, but americans in general tend to be heavier than other humans. Thus cars take more abuse. Part of that is because we drive longer distances, as we don't have the rail system, nor the same lifestyle as Europe or the middle east. Another factor in those distances is the fact that we don't have restrictive borders as frequently as other regions do, thus we drive farther more frequently. Add to this that our fuel has traditionally been cheaper, and you have yet another reason we drive a lot. I have yet to see a pick up truck from Japan deal with the loads we dump on our pickups. This decade may see that opinion change in the half ton market.
-- Max
Built like a Mercedes 3671Rachel Ebutton Someone else here said that there were more longer journies and *that* hammered the oil more. In fact your...
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