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With any remotely reasonable assumption about the (opportunity or actual) cost of funds, that Corolla has cost more for someone to buy than it has to fill with fuel for that 22 years and 200K miles.

Building durable, reliable cars is more economically beneficial to owners than squeezing out another mile per gallon. (If you wanted to change that, you'd need to dramatically increase the tax on fuel.)




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