A car shouldn’t just have a life span of 6-10 years.
They don’t.
My current daily driver is 18 years old. I expect at least another 10 barring an accident, maybe 30 more years as a spare vehicle. It got a new transmission at 200,000 miles. Engine seems like it’ll make it to at least 400k. A replacement is $1500, far less than a new car.
Most cars in my family (approximately 30 cars) are between ten and thirty years old.
I’ve had 3 cars since 1996, all bought used, and I traveled for work with one. One car I sold to a family member, and it’s still being driven.
It’s people that choose to not drive cars this long.
Same. We’re at 17 and 18 years, and we’re looking for replacements because we want something more efficient. We’ll probably sell them instead of junking them. We bought one at ~8yo, and the other at ~15yo, each has had minimal issues and I’ve done most of the work on them myself. Neither have any rust, though we live in a desert, so that’s not all that surprised.
Cars absolutely can last quite a while if they’re well maintained and designed well.
They don’t.
My current daily driver is 18 years old. I expect at least another 10 barring an accident, maybe 30 more years as a spare vehicle. It got a new transmission at 200,000 miles. Engine seems like it’ll make it to at least 400k. A replacement is $1500, far less than a new car.
Most cars in my family (approximately 30 cars) are between ten and thirty years old.
I’ve had 3 cars since 1996, all bought used, and I traveled for work with one. One car I sold to a family member, and it’s still being driven.
It’s people that choose to not drive cars this long.
Same. We’re at 17 and 18 years, and we’re looking for replacements because we want something more efficient. We’ll probably sell them instead of junking them. We bought one at ~8yo, and the other at ~15yo, each has had minimal issues and I’ve done most of the work on them myself. Neither have any rust, though we live in a desert, so that’s not all that surprised.
Cars absolutely can last quite a while if they’re well maintained and designed well.
Yeah but that can for sure be survival bias.
Basically you got lucky, or a brand made a better car for a while, you heard about it and bought one.
To make it sustainable cars should be easy to repair, probably with interchangeable parts etc.