These Brands Make the Best Used Cars

by Tim Healey

Published: September 20th, 2024

Hello all, it's podcast time again!

This week we discuss the best used cars, in terms of reliability, with Alex Knizek from Consumer Reports. We also discuss smart garage door openers and the NASCAR craziness at Watkins Glen.

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Thanks to Alex, Matthew, and Matt Posky for editing. And most of all, thank you for listening!

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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ToolGuy on Sep 21, 2024
TG Synopsis, from memory (do you trust my memory?): • First time Consumer Reports has published a used car ranking. • Primarily reliability based. • Based on reader surveys (TG note: selection bias, other issues). • 5- to 10-year old models (TG note: Chickens - my current fleet ranges from 11 to 29). • Summarized by brand but as Alex Knizek notes you have to drill down to model to get anything meaningful. (TG has told you this for years.) • Their 'Top Picks' for used vehicles (largely glossed over in the podcast) are questionable, to me. • Consumer Reports believes that anyone who buys used vehicles is buying used vehicles to save money and I don't necessarily agree with that. Is saving money the reason I watch old movies?

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El scotto on Sep 23, 2024
Please print the podcast, I'll never, ever listen to it. Too often people get glazed looks in their eyes when buying used vehicles and say "Gotta get a Toyota or a Honda, they're the best." Well, kinda sorta, with their reputation for reliability, their prices skyrocket. What was supposed to be a cheap car that "will run forever" becomes a money pit.

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- ToolGuy on Sep 23, 2024
  please record your comment i'll never ever read it
  
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