<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1522" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B> </B>Eugene Vilensky<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>Perception of quality, too.  Honda once released an entire line of automatic transmission (used across their entire lineup) that basically grind themselves up every 40k miles.  Don't hear much about that, though...<BR><BR> <DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 11/15/05, <B class=gmail_sendername>Doug Henwood</B> <<A href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> <DIV><BR>Those aren't incompatible hypotheses. There are too many carmakers,<BR>so the crappier ones take the hit.<BR><BR>Doug<BR>___________________________________<SPAN class=765405421-15112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=765405421-15112005></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=765405421-15112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>And the third Corolla I owned was a complete lemon.  Just about everything possible failed on that rig before it finally blew up.  The first two were tanks, though.  I always wondered if the unlucky third was built in the USA. . . .  </FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>