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On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 21:14, Keith Park wrote: > The main priority of most auto manufacturers that sell in the US right now > is to get the car the heck out of the country before its 5th Birthday. They > want to sell more cars, they don't want anybody driving a car in the USA > that's over 5 years old... more profit can be made selling a new one and > taking the old one and shipping it overseas for sale again. > > Hyundai is the most notable, when was the last time you saw a Hyundai in the > US that is over THREE years old? They want NOTHING to do with holding onto > a 10 year warrantee... they want that car gone before its 4 and out from > under that warrantee... its part of how they sell so many so cheap. When > your car turns 3 the dealers will HOUND you to buy a new one! It happened to me on my KIA (owned by Hyundai) before it was 1 year old. I was offered a fantastic trade-in, that would have gotten them out of the warranty, but would have kept me under payments for another year too. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~