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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Tassos 6 hours ago
NO THEY DO NOT, TIM........................ ACCURATELY: These brands make the most reliable cars AS PROVEN BY.... NOT SCIENCE, but OWNER-REPORTED failures to COnsumer Reports. .............,WHich, for flagship luxury cars, are often Statistically INSIGNIFICANT SAMPLES (this one went right over Tim's head, and many other heads here, but I will not give a lecture to you to explain it, even if you pay me my $400/hr. ................IN ADDITION, buyers already know that, AND DRIVE THE PRICES OF THESE USED CARS UP. I still recommend them for peace of mind, to people who are NOT CAR ENTHUSIASTS, but they will NOT get any BARGAIN when they buy them.

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Bd2 29 minutes ago
Tim - Toyota and Lexus does not make good vehicles. Hyundai, Kia, Genesis make the best vehicles in the world.

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- Redapple2 2 minutes ago
  this man is in michigan where 420 is legal
  
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Bd2 Tim - Toyota and Lexus does not make good vehicles. Hyundai, Kia, Genesis make the best vehicles in the world.
Tassos NO THEY DO NOT, TIM........................ ACCURATELY: These brands make the most reliable cars AS PROVEN BY.... NOT SCIENCE, but OWNER-REPORTED failures to COnsumer Reports. .............,WHich, for flagship luxury cars, are often Statistically INSIGNIFICANT SAMPLES (this one went right over Tim's head, and many other heads here, but I will not give a lecture to you to explain it, even if you pay me my $400/hr. ................IN ADDITION, buyers already know that, AND DRIVE THE PRICES OF THESE USED CARS UP. I still recommend them for peace of mind, to people who are NOT CAR ENTHUSIASTS, but they will NOT get any BARGAIN when they buy them.
Tassos IF ALL you care about is reliability, buy a Lexus LS460, but be prepared to pay TWICE what you will pay for a used BMW 7 series, which is far superior in handling and performance........................But if you also factor in price, you can't beat a used S Class, cars going for 125k-250k new, which you can buy, SLIGHTLY used (not when they are 20 year old, like TIm's IDIOTIC picks), for 10% of their price new, AND still LAST FOREVER AND take you to the TOP OF THE WORLD every time you drive them.
Scott Who makes the best used cars? I thought they all made new cars. (silly me)
Jkross22 It's the one with some warranty left.