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Originally Posted by Roger95 (Post 1319527)

To LuvmyXJS' point about GM; my family has owned nine GM heaps over the past 40 years. Other than a '77 Chevy Caprice and an '82 Chevy C-10 they were all junk!!! Every friggin' one! The worst of the bunch were three Cadilacs and the worst of the Cadillacs was my '97 Eldorado whose POS northstar V-8 came apart at 91,449 miles. Compare this junk to my '95 XJS. which ran day in and day out as my DD in 90 degree plus weather through Tampa rush hour traffic for six years (until my retirement) without one problem. To be sure I am finished with General Motors products!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I used to work for a GM dealer years ago and always thought highly of some GM cars and pickups mostly from the 50's and 60's. I still think they can put out a decent product now and then but as we all know they can come up with some real duds also. Nothing like buying a new GM car in 1988 and having the alternator fail on the way home from the Chevy dealer after picking up your new car. On the other hand my 2006 GMC pickup has been flawless from the day I picked it up new.

What I did learn from working at a dealer service dept. was that it was usually best to wait till torwards the end of a models run as usually this allowed the manufacturer to work out most of the bugs and issues. I used that logic with my 2006 GMC, my '95 XJS' and my '95 Corvette and so far so good.