ML>NO>It occurs to me that you may want to check maintainance costs of these
ML>NO>cars (esp. the acura) before you make this assertion.  The camaro will
ML>NO>almost certainly require more unscheduled repairs, but many of them will
ML>NO>be inexpensive the acura will require much more intensive maintainance
ML>NO>to keep it alive (timing belts alone add up over 200k miles) and acura
ML>NO>parts costs are significantly higher than chevy's.
ML>Timing belts only get changed every 90,000 miles, which means you'll
ML>only need to do it once, and I got mine done for $145.
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They must have one bad-ass timing belt then, as all of the gas powered
engines that I can think of off-hand have a timing belt interval between
45 and 60K.  The farthest I have ever seen a timing belt make it (in a
gas motor) is 79K after which the car needed a timing belt and a valve
job (it was a honda civic or crx, I think).
Most OHC diesel engines will go 80-90K on the timing belt because they
never experience the violent accel. that a gas engine delivers.
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