rev up your engines, today I'm going to talk about the best basic car ever made
Toyota Corolla, and to understand why here's a little history lesson, Ford made
the Model T, saying you could have it in any color you want, as long as it's black
and old Henry, he proceeded to sell 15 million Model T Fords, and things were certainly
different in those days, my grandfather was a mechanic in those days, and he
said, you couldn't go 20 miles without having one or two flats that you had to
fix, and you had to continually be working on the engines, and the old hand
Crank ones are hard to start, but hey they were basic transportation, now the next
big basic car was the Volkswagen Beetle, the folks wagon, people's car, the Germans
eventually sold 21 million VW beetles, but there's a really interesting story
about the origin of the beetle, because amongst the many bad things that Adolf
Hitler did, he was also a cheating car salesman, he had the idea of the people's
car, Ferdinand Porsche designed it for him, and they sold millions of Reichsmarks
worth of credits for building Volkswagens for the average people, but
sadly old Adolf never built a single Volkswagen for the people that put all
their down payments on, he took the money and he made military hardware in an attempt
to take over the world, but strangely enough after the war when the
company started mass-producing Volkswagen Beetles, the Germans that
could prove that they put their deposit down, they all got and applied for new
Volkswagens after the Reich had fallen, and strangely enough, the Volkswagen a
car built upon fascism, ended up being the hippies mode of transportation in
the 60s, the world turned upside down on that one, during this heyday of the
Volkswagens in the 1960s, Toyota a little somewhat known company in the United
States started producing Toyota Corollas in 1966, they're still making them today
and as of 2017, they sold over 44 million of these Corollas, and you might well ask, how
did they sell so many, well the things hardly ever break
and can run hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles, pretty
much trouble-free, and I know people say, oh they're such
boring cars, well if you want an exciting car, one that you never know if it'll
start when you turn the key, the Corolla is not
for you, because every time you turn the key, these things start up, this particular
one is a 2004 Corolla and it's only got one hundred and ninety six thousand
miles on it, so the engine is basically broken in on this thing, now I've never
personally seen one that had a million miles on it, the most I've ever seen on
cars that I worked on was over six hundred thousand miles, but hey that's a
lot of miles for a car that doesn't cost that much, and we Americans being
somewhat lazy when it comes to driving, this one has an automatic, most of the
one sold in the United States are automatics, pretty dependable I rarely
see an automatic transmission in a Corolla break down, and this one has four
doors, that's plenty of room inside, both of my sons are born in hospital
here in Houston we brought them back in a Toyota Corolla, and with the same Corolla
we drove them to high school too, then they drove themselves later
Christmastime, we stuck the Christmas tree on the top and just tied it down
with twine, and my favorite all-time work car, was a 1981 Toyota Corolla
sr5 hatchback, that I could fit all kinds of tools in by popping the seats down, I
could get jacks in there, I get all kinds of stuff in that car, I had that thing for
30-something years, then I sold the car one of my customers who had a Ford that blew
an engine, and she drove that thing more mileage in three years than I'd driven it
in thirty years, and they really don't require all that much maintenance, I got
customers with them, some of them have three four hundred thousand miles, bought them
used with two hundred thousand miles for very little money, all they would do was
change the oil and filter, and if anything like the brakes and stuff would
wear out, they'd bring it over here and I'd fix them, but the engines
transmissions, all original and still running fine, so if you're the type of
person that's not really into cars, you want some basic transportation that's going
to be reliable, get good gas mileage, not break down anywhere you're going, you
might think about getting a Toyota Corolla, it's a wise move for one who thinks
that cars are to get you from here to there, that's they're main purpose for many
people, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
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