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[solarbird]

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[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I had a fabulous Escort too, that lasted me ages.

I asked tfabris about this once, because he has spent a lot of time paying attention to this, and because I was perplexed by the "Found On Road Dead" and "Fixed Or Repaired Daily" jokes that I kept hearing-- had I just gotten extremely lucky, or what? Turns out there was a period of time during which American car makers were learning from and copying the best technology of Japanese cars, particularly in terms of durability, and mine (and probably yours) appeared to have been made within that time frame.

Then there was a period of time when they *weren't*, and the quality fell.