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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Robinson" data-source="post: 1451584" data-attributes="member: 18849">Back in the 1980s Mechanix Illustrated magazine had annual awards for the &quot;most maintainable car&quot; of the year, and also had on article once where readers sent in photos and write ups of appliances that had been used for decades and decades.&nbsp; The magazine later morphed into Home Mechanix, then went out of business.&nbsp; A pity, as I thought it was better than Mechanics Illustrated, at least in the 1980s.Speaking of Mechanics Illustrated, in the 1940&#039;s in their Home Kinks annuals every other article was about how to fix things or make things from scrap.&nbsp; The Popular Science Home Workshop Annuals are a treasure as well.&nbsp; Later on Popular Mechanics became a magazine about big foot, UFOs, and the occasional DIY Lite article--it especially went downhill after Hearst bought them, now they are in the same conglomerate that brings us Cosmopolitain, and the Oprah Magazine.Consumer Reports has guides on reliability, but not on maintainability.&nbsp; Some cars are easier to work on than others. I suppose if one buys a car, they could take it to their mechanic and, besides giving it a going over, ask how hard or easy it will be to work on and what they see going out on them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jacob Robinson, post: 1451584, member: 18849"] Back in the 1980s [I]Mechanix Illustrated[/I] magazine had annual awards for the "most maintainable car" of the year, and also had on article once where readers sent in photos and write ups of appliances that had been used for decades and decades. The magazine later morphed into [I]Home Mechanix[/I], then went out of business. A pity, as I thought it was better than [I]Mechanics Illustrated[/I], at least in the 1980s. Speaking of [I]Mechanics Illustrated[/I], in the 1940's in their Home Kinks annuals every other article was about how to fix things or make things from scrap. The [I]Popular Science[/I] Home Workshop Annuals are a treasure as well. Later on [I]Popular Mechanics[/I] became a magazine about big foot, UFOs, and the occasional DIY Lite article--it especially went downhill after Hearst bought them, now they are in the same conglomerate that brings us [I]Cosmopolitain[/I], and the [I]Oprah Magazine[/I]. [I]Consumer Reports[/I] has guides on reliability, but not on maintainability. Some cars are easier to work on than others. I suppose if one buys a car, they could take it to their mechanic and, besides giving it a going over, ask how hard or easy it will be to work on and what they see going out on them. [/QUOTE]

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