Car question

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Originally Posted by Mockingbird

They have this one at work that I really dig, it's a 2000 Mazda Miata with a soft top, manual with about 100k miles on it.

Mazda Miata has reliability ratings for 2001 models that are competitive with Toyota. Only part that has average reliablity is its transmission.

100,000 on the Miata would be equivalent to about 40,000 on a GM product. Miata is also listed in Consumer Reports in "CR Good Bets" for used cars. Also useful is that no Mazdas appear in the "CR Bad Bets" list.

Cited as reliable used cars are the 1999 MX-5 Miata in the $8000-$10000 category, the 2000 MX-5 Miata in the $10K-$12K category, and 2001 and 2002 MX-5 Miatas in the $12K-$14K category.

100,000 is not much mileage among those who have long since divorced themselves from the high failure GM mentality - cars designed in the accounting department.

Once, one would buy used cars at 40,000 miles. Today, same reliability is found in 100,000 mile cars. That assumes the car is not using 1968 and 1978 technology engines in their year 2000 models.