On the other side of the coin, I have a 95' GMC Sonoma that I bought new in Nov of 94'. It now has 247,000. miles on it, still holds 50lb's of oil pressure at idle and still gets the same 23 MPG it got when new. I've spent $1300. in repairs on it in 14 years and it still has the original Alt, water pump, radiator and heater hoses for God's sake.
Now it has some issues that will never be fixed because it is too old to be worth the repair costs, but it has been as good of a truck as the 85' Toyota I replaced with it and a hell of a lot nicer truck overall. If it blew up tomorrow I would still have gotten my moneys worth out of it.
It anything it was built too good, shit it's 14 years old and I'm still driving it, so the auto industry hasn't gotten another sale out of me since. Oh and the 4.3 V-6 is a kickin little engine, for a truck.
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