amsoil,mobil1 or eneos

Royal Purple synthetic hands down. Look up the Synerlec technology in Royal Purple and that will convince you.

I like Motul myself.

Royal purple, but its expensive. I didnt know you could finance a car for 7 years. I guess creative financing has moved out of the housing market and into the automotive market.

I use German Castrol Syntec year round.

Good price/performance ratio.

I second royal purple but they just went up in price recently which angers me. However I also like Lubromoly and Eneos. Mobil 1 is very good too and you can get it for the cheapest.

If you're not going to push your car to the limits once in a while, save your money and go for mobil 1. They meet full mfr specs for their oil and it won't break your bank.

i use amsoil everything in my fj (except transmission fluid) and will change the tc over once i am done with my free oil changes. if you're getting good oil, make sure you get a good filter.

holy sh!t, 7 years on an auto loan? that's almost as long to finance a boat. i never in my life would have guessed someone would need to finance a 18k car for 7 years. i did the tc for 6 years because of the economy, but i pay $125 extra a month to have it paid off in 4 years.

Motul or Royal Purple for me. Amsoil and Mobil1 isn't a bad choice either. The most important thing is to get the right viscosity.

i just switched from RP to amsoil in all of my cars. if u read the some comparisons then ull see that amsoil is up in the top m1 and rp are close but not amsoil good. too bad my rolla is making it Disappear and i need to keep putting some in stupid 1zzfe motor

I've heard Redline is on par with Royal Purple as well.

Most synthetics are the same.. depending on the weather condition and how you drive you car, one brand may work slightly (eeny weeny tiny bit) better than another. The bottom line is will your engine be just as clean and lubricated 10 years to 15 years down the line as when you first start using it on a new engine.. that is the question. The only companies that i've seen that have had a 3rd party test this and published the information (actual 10 years, not simulated) is mobil 1, motul and lubromoly (tested on everyday cars and trucks). I also like eneos because about 10 years ago, they published (in japan) an article done by some other company (though partially sponsored by nippon oil) about how their high performance oil can hold up very well in a track car and after 3 years be just as good as when you first start using it. It was an impressive article to me. However, eneos is expensive and hard to get. Lubromoly (the german stuff) is pretty nice but hard to get and according to online forums and users, people have said that Royal purple is the closest to lubromoly so i've been using it for a couple years now. Biggest thing i've seen is with RP, it has increased my mpg a little so i was happy about that. whether RP will make my car last longer i have no idea.

Doesn't matter if you pour in the best motor oil money can buy - if you don't change it on a regular basis with a good quality oil filter and couple that with good all around maintenance, that oil won't help you at all.

Even conventional motor oil will protect your car for a very long time, as long you as you get routine oil changes. The quality of motor oils now is very good, pretty hard to go wrong with any of them. The real key is not who makes the the oil, but how you maintain the car. Couple the oil (correct viscosity please) with a quality oil filter, keep an eye on oil levels, and change it on a regular basis - should have no problems getting to last 7 years.

Personal experience:
2002 Corolla (bought new) has a little under 160K miles and been running whatever synthetic motor oil has been on sale. Doesn't burn a drop of oil and still runs like a champ.

2003 Matrix (bought used @ 30K) has a little more than 110K miles and been running Mobil 1 synthetic exclusively since I picked it up. Again, doesn't burn a drop and runs really well.

1996 Camry (bought new) that has been using Valvoline All-Climate conventional motor oil almost exclusively. Burns maybe 1/2 quart every 5000 miles, but has just rolled over 300K miles! Runs like the day we bought it.

Congrats. I want to buy my next car new and keep it forever too. I've been looking at the new Camry SE V6.

^^^ Thanks!

Hard to believe that it rolled up to that mileage figure. But then again, the S-family of engines were known to be very tough. Recently put in some money into the car to keep it running (new struts, new springs, new fuel filler tube, replaced most of the A/C lines, new brake hard and soft line, etc.) But the car has been so reliable up to that point - the extra cost was easily covered.

Yeah, we almost jumped onto a new Camry, but were taken by the "cheapness" of the interior. Kind of hard to explain, but the new generation of Camry feels more "domestic" compared to the current crop of domestics.

Material choice and fit and finish are sub-par compared to our old Camry. The increase in feature set and overall size is nice, plus a V6 that has some real power compared to the V6 available back when we bought ours. Couldn't justify dropping $25K-$30K on a car that looks worse than its 14 year old predecessor.

We'll wait and see what comes out next year. My folks might take a shine to the new Hyundai Genesis sedan. They seems to have hit the sweet spot of performance, size, fit and finish, and price. Too bad the chassis seems to never settle down completely on the Genesis, or it would have been a done deal.

at sema, eneos had better looking models if that helps with the selection.

it will for me!

why would make a difference that you live around the corner from a shop? you can switch to a synthetic when ever you want and you can go 5000 miles on an oil change. i sending in my oil sample soon to see if i can go to 7500 miles on an oil change. oil analysis is the only way to know how far you can go between oil changes. it's a corolla, no need to drive aggressively.

agree