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Re:The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain by jfindley on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:23PM (#11880144)
Yes I did look for Alfa in the list, I wasn't surprised it wasn't there, as in my experience it'd be so far off the top of the chart, the others would look tiny in comparison.

I loved our Alfa, but my word was it expensive to maintain (and broke a LOT).

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Re:The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain by sokoloff on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:26PM (#11880967)
Loved mine as well ('86 Quad Spider) but mine was very easy on maintenance. Owned it about 20 years, daily drove it (year-round in Boston area) for about 10 of those, and in 135K miles, it left me stranded once when a Bosch distributor broke internally. Brakes and maintenance parts were very reasonably priced, readily available, and the car was easy to maintain except for some engine bay clearance issues [when changing motor mounts and the like] due to the bodywork shape.
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Re:The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain by busterarm on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:29PM (#11880183)
Imagine where Jaguar would have shown up in the list in the pre-Tata Motors era.

Even though Ford made improvements, it wasn't until like '96 that Lucas went out of business and was out of the mix...

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Re:The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain by jean_claude on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:10PM (#11880885)
Jaguar owners don't care about maintenance costs, anecdotally speaking, of course. Executive VP at an old job had a Jaguar (XJ-12 I think) that would occasionally catch fire and 'need some work'. I swear it spent more time in the shop than on the road, but he loved Jags.
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