On 10/17/25 15:25, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Some makes and models of cars don't last ten years
and auto makers don't WANT them to last;
On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
Subaru: Built cheap and designed to stay that way.
Subaru was actually not the worst.
Think of Yugo! Imported into USA from 1985 - 1992
https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/the-yugo/
It was brought in by Malcolm Bricklin. He had also been the one to
bring in Subaru 360, and founded subaru Of America.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
I worked on a few Yugos, and had a disproportionate number of friends
who owned them. My take:
They were designed & built on the AK-47 Principle - inelegant,
ultra-simple, no consideration at all for style, and manufactured to
intentionally ridiculous tolerances.
Turned out all that works a lot better in a rifle than an
internal-combustion vehicle.
If you accidentally got one that was built pretty tight they were solid
cars, but most of them died early when one bearing or another grenaded.
Doc
