Yep, I'll happily agree to that. The issue is that when something breaks, it's rarely a £15 part from GSF like it is with our old tubs. This gives the *impression* that the old tubs are cheaper to run, thus more reliable, when it's more than often not the case. My mum tends to buy a car new, run it for 7 or 8 years, then buy a new one. Ok, she bought Japanese cars up until 2 years ago when she bought a Kia. They never break down though. The Mondeo we had for 7 years and 144k miles never missed a beat apart from when i left the lights on and went on holiday, which ruined the battery.Gibbo2286 wrote:I had to chuckle at the "General unreliability of new cars" bit, cars are more reliable now than they've ever been,
Now, be totally honest, and count up the number of failures of *something* on your old tub that you've had in the last couple of years... I've ran old French cars since oh, about 1998 on and off, and rarely a month or two goes by without something going wrong, however minor. Obviously, I haven't paid £15k for these cars, so it's acceptable, but if I had, it really wouldn't be.