2002 Oldsmobile Alero GLS from North America - Off Topic Comments

I don't mean to rub salt in the wounds, but you stated ".. so many big ticket items..." need repairs. Did you leave those off the list? I could not find any big ticket items. Big ticket items for me, equal $1000+ repair. A repair less than $500 is not a big ticket item and a gray area is present between $500 and 1000. But I did not even find any single $500+ repairs unless you were seen as a pile of money to a greedy repair shop. (Quite possible in the world today.)

Also, I'm not defending the Alero, but a bad sample of any car does not mean all cars from that country are bad. There are bad samples of cars from every country that makes cars. One should be careful about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Perhaps you will have a better 2007 than you did 2006!