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To: carranza2 who wrote (109559)	1/8/2015 12:42:20 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219928

Best car I ever drove? Peugeot 504 Station Wagon. We needed a reliable car in Nigeria. It was also simple to repair. The only problem I had was air conditioning and a back door that rattled. I discovered the Nigerian government wanted to diversify from oil income -after oil price collapse of mid-80s- forced the French to import CKD and assemble them in Nigeria. Quality went down hill. Today, incredible, I still see Peugeots 504 on the roads in Africa. We can say that most cars, nowadays, are of good quality as manufacturers offered warranty of 5 years or 100.000 Km. They did so to get the cars back to the dealers where they could see what pats were failing along the life of the car. Then they took that part back to the manufacturer and improved. After that the cars had all parts lasting a long life. Fiats were unreliable cars in the 70s. Totally shit! I was forced to get a Fiat in 2001. The rental company told me I need to swap after 6 months. I wanted to keep an Opel Astra (GM made in Germany) which was very good. The rental company told me they would give one vehicle the same level. I insisted I wanted a Astra. They said they'd try. They gave me a brand new Diesel powered Fiat Marea. I took it to the Autobahn from Munich to Prague. Once I got home I had converted. More spacious which was better for me that time. Less fuel consumption. And someone tried to break into it (cars were much sought after in the Eastern countries then. He could not break the locker. I went back to Brazil and bought my former wife same model with 18.000Km. She sold it with some 110.000Km and as it was my former wife's car a car must be good to last in her hands...

To: carranza2 who wrote (109559)	1/8/2015 1:40:39 AM
From: St. John Smythe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219928

In the late 70s my brother owned a Ducati 860 GT motorcycle. Thrilling bike but totally unreliable. It seemed he spent more time fixing it than riding it, but when it was running, oh boy, what fun! Great handling (for its time), beautiful styling, V-twin motor, and that unmistakeable Conti exhaust note. Only the Italians could make something so completely unreliable that you still love so completely! A few rides on his bike got me so hooked on Ducati that I bought a 1980 900 SS Darmah for myself. Every once in a while I'd hit a bump, lose the electrics, and the motor would die until I wiggled my hand around in the wiring bird's nest behind the headlamp and it came back to life. Still regret selling it.