Moving up to full EV but keeping the Clarity

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coutinpe said:
Yes, actually the Takata airbag recall was the first one I heard about, not so long after I arrived in USA. It was so funny, because the day after I had to go to a management seminary in which our CEO had to give a lecture about "Lean methodology: The Toyota Model". The poor guy was so embarrassed...

I agree with you almost 100%, although my impression is that beside forums and direct communications, lately recalls are getting way more sensationalistic coverage from the media than the previous decade, for instance. They always manage to make things look like the world is going to end for everyone. Everything I've heard about recalls at least during the past two years (except our fuel pump thing) I got it from TV news. However, I just got curious and went to verify my subjective impression here:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2023-03/2022-Recalls-Annual-Report_030223-tag.pdf
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I remember oil burning problems of previous decades and other minor problems, things are getting worse these days.
 
MrFixit said:
On the other hand - back in the day, one was lucky to get 100K miles out of a vehicle.
With a modern vehicle (and all it's complexity), I think 200K is more the norm if you want to run them until they die.
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Back in the day (like 1960s) sure. But a 1990s car is pretty likely to make it 100k+. My Honda with barely 80k drives like a broken dual clutch at low speeds and is making grinding noises! Just today I heard hondas are having high pressure fuel pumps leak!
 
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