{"id":1654,"date":"2012-05-11T15:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T05:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:47:59","slug":"your-best-car-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/your-best-car-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Best Car Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In last month\u2019s newsletter we asked our readers for their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/home\/your-worst-car\/#more-1595\">horror car experiences<\/a> , and we\u00a0 were surprised at the response. We have shown that modern cars are much more reliable than their classic counterparts (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/reliability\/\">here<\/a>), but, it seems, even the most dependable makes have their \u2018off\u2019 days. The best story last month\u00a0 won a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomtom.com\/en_au\/products\/car-navigation\/go-live-820-regional\/\">TomTom Live <\/a>Sat\/Nav, so we are offering the same prize this month for the best \u201cGreat Car\u2019 experience.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall last month that I had my own worst car experience with a Holden. Surprisingly that same make gave me my best car experience, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Holden-Statesman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1655\" title=\"Holden Statesman\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Holden-Statesman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago I bought a Holden Statesman. It was just over two years old, and had a mere 18,000kms on the clock, so I thought I was pretty safe. But it didn\u2019t turn out that way &#8211; at least initially.<\/p>\n<p>The engine had a strange knock on start up, so I took it to the dealer to investigate. The result was that they kept the car for two weeks whilst they replaced the engine. So I reluctantly thought I\u2019d bought another lemon and was getting prepared to sell it.<\/p>\n<p>And sell it I did, but 240,000kms\u00a0 and six years later! It\u2019s hard to recall if I ever kept a car that long, as I simply didn\u2019t know what to replace it with. Its only demand on my wallet was for petrol, regular servicing and tyres. That\u2019s it- not an extra cent to spend and not a drop of oil between services.<\/p>\n<p>So Holden gets both the winners and losers guernseys in my book.<\/p>\n<p>What about you?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a stunning reliability story to tell? If so we\u2019d like to hear from you, and there\u2019s a Tom Tom sat\/nav for the best answer.<\/p>\n<p>Click on comments below. <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/moneza-online-zaym.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/moneza-online-zaym.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last month\u2019s newsletter we asked our readers for their horror car experiences , and we\u00a0 were surprised at the response. We have shown that modern cars are much more reliable than their classic counterparts (here), but, it seems, even the most dependable makes have their \u2018off\u2019 days. The best story last month\u00a0 won a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12339,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/12339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}