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From: prophet@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dennis Gibbs)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: auto longevity survey
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 10:58:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 10:58:30 1985
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>I am making a casual study of longevity of automobiles.  Specifically, I would
>like to compare brands and nations of origin to see what the longest lasting
>cars are.  When I have finished, I will post the results here.  I would
>greatly appreciate it if all of you who have cars with >100K miles would fill
>in the brief questionare below, and mail it to me.  Thank you in advance,
>
>Randy Horton

I know you said CASUAL study, but will you be taking into account the number of
each brand  of  automobile  currently  in  use?  For  example,  there  are more
Chevys out there than most other makes of automobile, hence you will likely get
many replies from Chevy owners that have gone over 100K miles.  But that doesnt
mean that the average Chevy would last as long as the average Mercedes, and you
will probably not get very  many  replies  from  Mercedes  owners....But if you 
don't  take this into  account in  your study  your study will  be  misleading.


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