['97ventureowner]

Just a side note. I, along with some friends over the years have noticed that the more reliable cars GM has produced are those that are in their final years of production before being discontinued in favor of a "newer and improved vehicle". It seems that when GM, ( or any other 'American' car manufacturer for that matter,) comes out with a new vehicle, it is bound to have problems and bugs that need to be fixed. Over the years of the production run, these problems seem to get fewer, until the final year of production, when the least amount of problems have been recorded. We used to joke back in the '80s and '90s that they weren't content with producing problem free cars, and when most of the problems have been solved, it was time to quit making that car and bring out a new one with a host of new problems, and start the process all over again. That is, I believe, where the comment came, " Never buy a new car in it's first or second model year of being introduced, until the problems have been discovered and fixed."