As always I am very late to the party. Paul, I'm afraid I am with Bill here. I know you made amends or whatever, but I'd like to make a point, with appropriate respect to each of you.
You see, one of my leased cars (Leasing means that they deduct money from your salary, and you get full package - car, fuel, service, insurance, completely worry-free) was Toyota Corolla 2004 made in Turkey. It was basically lemon. It drove, but it squeaked, ate light bulbs and was all the way unpleasant. I should point out that a lorry with cars arrived to my company - full of same looking white Corollas. Some of my co-workers chose some other cars from the same lorry and they were very happy. Courses for horses... My next ;eased car was Corolla 2008 made in Japan. This was properly put together vehicle with one annoying bug in gearbox control. It had this robotic gearbox and these flappy thingies on both sides of the steering wheel that were supposed to make me feel like F1 driver or something. So when I was braking, the car would decide to shift down one gear. And sometimes I would also decide the same. Notice, not to go from 3rd to 2nd, but rather 1 gear down from whatever gear I was in at the moment. And they did not put any mutex between the built-in computer and these flappy thingies. Going down from 3rd to 1st in one step made my wife tell me that I talked the most to this specific car. Though it was nice, quiet and frugal otherwise. My point being - Toyota Corolla statistically is probably the most sold family sedan on entire planet. Will I come near Corolla again? Probably not. Nowadays, I am driving my own car 'cause company leasing is no longer economically viable option for me. And to pay in excess of USD 30000 of my own money for Corolla sounds nonsense to me. If you have lemon in your hands, it really does not matter to you how many other people got diamonds out of the same looking package. With great respect to both you, Paul, and Bill. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 8:36 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > >> finally this thread has some spark to it > > > It will soon stall out . . . . > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
