Throw in your opinions, mine may differ.

Toyota - Their petrol engines are very good, reliable, efficient. Their diesels are questionable.
The Automatics they use are good, generally Aisin brand.

Overall, great cars, a bit behind the 'curve' in technology. Good for NVH and the real world running.

.......... Not many new high output low cubic inch turbo diesel motors reach more than 300,000 with out serious $ issues but there will always be exceptions ( service and driver atitude). We cant expect miles like the old n/asperated landcruiser and patrol engines that are never stressed and just keep ploding along using more juice . Most turbos will need to be replaced at around 250,oook or some times a lot sooner . Small Turbo Engines with non direct injection with precombuston chambers often need head work around the 250,000 mark too.

Mate i would say if you look after your car there is no risk of expensive repairs after waranty . most cars are great for the first 10 years AND YES they can be reliable after 250000kms if money is spent on service and repaires as required. many high milage 4x4 have been taken to very remote places in Australia as the owners are less reluctant to take newer vehicles there and dent them or damage them when newer. you always have more fun with a older 4x4 unless you have a lot of money.       ........

Peugeot

The French panache

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Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 16^th, 2021 at 10:32pm:


Ahhh, yes. French cars.

A bloke I knew took a payout from the Public Service years back, and joined an outsourced service provider (providing IT services to his old employer).

With part of that payout, he bought himself an expensive Peugeot.

Years later, I began using a work-from-home mechanic to help maintain our cars for stuff beyond the basic servicing I'd do. He happened to live next to the bloke mentioned above.

Took our car to the mechanic one day, and chanced a glance in the bloke's yard, and there was the Peugeot, effectively abandoned in the front yard with grass growing around it. Apparently, some mega-expensive part had failed, and the cost of obtaining the part and having it R&R'd, outweighed the residual value of the car at the time. By this stage, he'd "moved on" to a Lexus...

I think Camry are designed for a demographic of people who are buying it as their last car and it will outlive them

Bobby. wrote on Jan 17^th, 2021 at 4:37pm:


Mine has 278,000 + kms on it.
Runs perfectly well, 4cyl rego, ins and economy, low NVH, spacious.

When people talk about high kms on a car, I am thinking over 200,000 kms.