I'm a' just gonna leave this here:
Toyota Prius
versus
Toyota Corolla
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The Prius does pretty good on the secondhand market. Better than the vaunted Corolla. (unsurprised at the blip around 2000 for the Corolla... teething issues with that new motor.)
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Nifty site, that. Done by Steven Lang, used car dealer who writes for The Truth About Cars, Curbside Classics and Yahoo Autos. Takes information on reliability straight from repair and value estimates done at point of purchase by used car dealers. For some cars, the sample sizes are (unavoidably) small, but both of these are culled from a few thousand samples.
Lots of interesting stuff to see there.
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Oh, and also, Lang's Hammer Time articles are worth Googling.