The whole tone of your article seems to be that all car dealers are thieves, and it is your job to put them out of business by making sure their profit on every sale is ZERO! But it is perfectly reasonable to let Starbucks make 2000% profit on every coffee drink they sell. Or pay full sticker price for everything sold ...more

While you two motor head geeks argue, the truth is that any of the Ford modular engines will run over 150K miles while giving good power and excellent reliability. All the non-geek owner needs to do is change the oil, drive the car, and have a blast. Within the next decade or so this entire discussion will be moot. O...more

Frosty, have you ever owned a Mitsubishi, or an Isuzu, or a Subaru? Even some Touyota's (V6 Camry, Tundra, Tacoma) and Honda's (Odyssey) are just not well designed and built. You might want to get off that Japanese train and start looking at individual models. There are some poor GM cars, but there are also some GREAT ...more

That GM 3.8 liter engine is one of the best ever built, but it has been out of production for almost 10 years. It is too old to make this list.

A Kia is not a Japanese car.

If I were looking for a good deal on a 3 year old car, I would find cars that had excellent reliability and safety scores when new, excellent durability scores when 2 or 3 years old, and very poor residual values in the ALG guide book. Any car that met those three criteria would be an excellent used car value as long a...more

If you are really seeing cars with 100,000 miles and the price is within $2000 of a new one, you are looking at a dealer who will be out of business very soon. There are ZERO cars on the market that only loose $2000 in value after 100K miles. ABSOLUTELY ZERO!

I don't know of an American made car that gets 70+ mph regardless of where it is sold. Which cars are you speaking about? What are their model names?

The answer to that opening question is very simple......only if you need a new car.