as any Chryco vehicle of that vintage is long dead.

Last I checked you can still get a crew cab long bed?

1. A Challenger with a V8 pulls better economy real world than a WRX.

$260/month for insurance?!?!?!

Keep thinking you aren’t damaging your car driving it with a CEL on, just don’t come crying to us when it shits the bed.

Doesn’t that usually throw an ABS/Brake light, not a CEL though?

They may both fall under cost of ownership, but REPAIRS affect reliability ratings, MAINTENANCE does not.

Try pushing $6k+ for decent ones.

Still missing a major point: What’s considered maintenance and what’s considered repair varies by manufacturer/vehicle, so what one vehicle gets hit for another vehicle will not because it was just scheduled maintenance. 

Eh, I’d rather a 2002-2004 Lesabre/Park Avenue than pretty much anything else I could get for $20k

Gotta have that extra performance to dwaddle down the on ramp, try to merge at 20 mph under the limit, then slide over to the left lane and drive at 10 under the limit!

Why spend $20k when $2500 will get you exactly what you need?

Ours is at 51k so far and it’s been great. It’s still tight and quiet as the day we brought it home, it’s smooth, and it returns mid 20s in mixed driving. I have no complaints.

AND if you could get a regular maintenance statistic that was reliable, those other cars in the same market would continue to fare better than the Lesabre all things being equal.

Really?

Maybe in your neck of the woods, can’t take a 15 min trip without seeing at least a half dozen around here.

Explains all of them still on the road......

Your treatment of your cars may not by typical, you may keep them under a diaper mat and never let the tach hit more than 35k, you may change the oil every 3k, you may keep them in the garage all the time so the cheap clear coat doesn’t surrender to oxidation before it’s fifth birthday. If any or all of that is the…

I mean, newer Buicks, sure.

Good engine strapped to 90s cost cutting is better than an ok engine strapped to modern cost cutting......