Looking Good and Being Good

[609 words] I have owned 12 vehicles before my current car, which is a Scion xB. Included in that list are a number of”luxury” brands, including Audi, BMW, Infiniti, and Mercedes Benz. One would assume that when I identify the best vehicle I have ever owned (with my current Scion xB not being eligible, since I do not know how well it will fare in the long run), I would definitely name one of those luxury brands, as opposed to a Ford, Mercury, or Volkswagen. Ironically, however, the best car I have ever owned (based on my standard of dependability and needing the fewest possible repairs that I had to pay for, other than routine maintenance) was a Mercury Villager minivan. I drove that minivan over 200,000 miles without paying for a single repair—just regularly scheduled maintenance that I had performed at the right time according to the manufacturer’s schedule….