[djmcmath]

I'll second the "s***ty cars" argument. A friend of mine just bought a Ford truck. It's used, sure, but it's only got 60Kmi on it. So he decides that, since he now has a reliable vehicle, he's going to make a road trip. 100mi into the trip, a high pressure junction in the fuel system fails and the truck dies.

So here he is, having just spent umpteen thousand $$$ on a practically new truck that's dead by the side of the road. He gets it towed to the nearest dealer, but the soonest they can get the part in is Tuesday. What kind of a s***ty road trip is this, anyway?

So with an experience like that, what do you tell your friends? "Don't buy a Ford truck, whatever you do, or you'll end up dead by the side of the road 100 miles from anywhere."