Thoughts on newer vehicles mentality..

/rant
Me personally, I have no idea why older guys, like my dad, are so adverse to getting newer cars. His reasoning is that there is too much that can go wrong that I can't fix. My question to him is, when has ANYTHING on your Suburban or Excursion gone wrong that wasn't a simple fix? answer: nothing You've never had an engine break down on either, the windows stopped working on the suburban for whatever reason, the pass window on the Excursion just needed to get the ground wire back in to work. Everything that went wrong on the Suburban was from 230,000 run into the ground miles because he needed a new truck. transmission at 225? wear. brake lines bursting after sold? wear. brake lights not working because the wiring rotted out? wear. AC? botched repair job by the guy doing it. 4 windows open/60mph AC became our routine during the summer. The only serious thing on the excursion was the towing button wire fusing because of heavy usage from the previous owner.

Anyway, I don't get why older guys don't like newer cars when all it takes is research that just ensures that you buy one that has no rep of breaking down. It will run forever if you just take care of it. irritatingly, this mistrust of new tech has rubbed off on my younger bro as well....

/endrant