Thoughts on newer vehicles mentality..

Well a lot of people want reliability too. And when there older car starts to break down more often the cost of maintenance goes up and they don't want to get stranded somewhere. So usually, in my experience, people want to get rid of their car when they have had two major repairs within 6 months, which would add up to about the same as a new car payment, and the newer car should be more reliable.

But I am with you, I keep my beaters around forever. In my case it beats having a car payment. But there are times when I do get sick of something breaking on them, in fact I have had one down for quite some time now, and haven't get around to fixing it.