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From: OzOne on 19 Apr 2010 08:33 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:19:26 +0800, "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote: >380VRX wrote: >> when it was released it had 4 wheel disc brakes standard accross the >> range and they were rated very highly for reliability over holden and >> ford > >Actually they weren't. Those autos were a dog and the engines were sluggish >fuel guzzlers with timing chain issues... and that's when they were new... > Actually they were, when released well ahead of the competition, had better fuel consumption etc etc....But hey...You were a Holden man...you needed to believe what they said. I owned a VS Commodore at the same time...It really was a bucket of bolts when compared. OzOne of the three twins I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace.
From: OzOne on 19 Apr 2010 08:34 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:24:51 +1000, "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote: > >"Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message >news:4bcbe5fa$0$27851$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > >> The only good thing about them were that they provided the bread and >> butter for many a mechanic. > >They sure did. > >I actually think they're a great car. They paid for half my mortgage :) BULLSHIT!!! OzOne of the three twins I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace.
From: OzOne on 19 Apr 2010 08:35 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:00:47 +1000, "The Raven" <swilson150(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: >The first models had poor transmissions with a Mitsubishi recognised failure >rate of 10% of volume. Yes..they did..... OzOne of the three twins I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace.
From: Atheist Chaplain on 19 Apr 2010 09:27 "Dingo" <dingo963(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:538ns59684fp1709riarkvhp55f6a7i1sn(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:23:24 -0700 (PDT), 380VRX > <mmal380vrx(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>when it was released it had 4 wheel disc brakes standard accross the >>range and they were rated very highly for reliability over holden and >>ford Well my Father has, for as long as I can remember always kept his cars for 10 years then traded for a new one, He bought one of the early Magnas, the wedge shaped one with the 2.6 Astron II and crappy auto, it is the first car he ever had in living memory that he traded after 3 years and the first to be traded for a non Chrysler/Mitsubishi, he was so disgusted that he bought a Mazda 626. -- [This comment is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Church of Scientology International] "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi
From: Clocky on 20 Apr 2010 10:50
hippo wrote: > Noddy wrote: >> >> >> "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message >> news:4bcd1850$0$8773$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >> >>> The Sigma/early Magna fiasco seeded the demise of MMAL... public >>> confidence in their cars plummeted and they never recovered. >> >> Absolutely. >> >>> Case in point, my Grandfather had a thing for Chrysler and then >>> Mitsubishi, and he bought a Sigma Scorpion new when they came out. >>> First the clutch failed and then the gearbox crapped itself and >>> when the engine started rattling he got so pissed with it that he >>> traded it in on a Pintara (of all things, but which never gave him >>> any trouble) and never considered another Mitsubishi again. >> >> Don't blame him. >> >> As you know I used to do a lot of fleet maintenance, and one of my >> clients had around 14 early Magna's at one stage. Every single one >> of them was a terrible car despite them all being purchased new and >> dealer serviced until they were 12 months old. They had so many >> problems it wasn't funny with the biggest complaint (that being a >> non mechanical failure) being fuel consumption. They simply *ate* >> fuel like they were going to stop making it tomorrow, and their >> consumption was worse that many larger cars. >> >> This particular company off loaded their whole fleet 12 months short >> of their lease ending (which apparently was the only time they did >> so) and replaced the things with a mixture of Falcons and Nissans >> and their maintenance and running costs took a huge nose dive. At >> their next change they went with Camry's exclusively and their >> maintenance costs were down 75% compared to the days of the Magna's. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Noddy. >> >> >> >> > > You've reminded me of a car dealer in Parramatta about 30 yrs ago. > They had 5 or 6 earlyish (but new then) Geminis as their courtesy car > fleet. When they were subsequently replaced with Barinas, the service > and repair bill for all the Barinas combined was about the same as it > had been for *each* Gemini the year before. I'm not surprised, those Suzuki based Barinas were excellent little runners and uber-reliable. |