How Long Are You Going to Hang To That "New" Car?

Turns out high quality and superb reliability are not such good things – for the car companies, anyhow.

The word is out that you don’t have to sign up for five (or six or seven) years of crushing monthly car payments — plus the insurance, plus the property taxes — on a brand-new car in order to drive a trouble-free, looks-like-new car. Because today’s used cars are that good.

Because today’s new cars are that good.

After a solid quarter century of really working at it, the automakers have achieved the Nearly Indestructible Car. The make/model hardly matters. Treated even semi-decently, most any car built after about model year 2000 can be counted on to go for 200,000 miles or more of mostly trouble-free driving.

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LexSucks - 4/16/2010 11:46:18 AM

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"How Long Are You Going to Hang To That "New" Car?"

- As long as commercials tell me to.

klipprand - 4/16/2010 2:25:38 PM

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200,000 plus miles on my 2000 Accord, still going strong. Change the oil, fill it with gas. New belts at 200K.... :)

Willis - 4/16/2010 2:43:05 PM

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I really like the new Audi A4 and the new C class, but I am sticking with my C230 V6 because it's an awesome machine and I don't really need anything else.

TheDepressingTruth - 4/18/2010 10:26:34 AM

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1998 Honda Civic LX...(It was the Ex-Wife's Car...She took my Jeep Grand Cherokee in the Divorce) with 92k miles...Which I will keep until my 11yr old son turns 16 and then it's his...Needless to say, he thinks Dad should buy a new Mustang GT...(Dad would buy a Subaru WRX STi)

I will probably purchase a "Dave Ramsey" Special within the next year...A $3000 Small Pickup (Ford Ranger...I hate 'Em...But they ARE CHEAP) and save $250 per month and trade up every 12 to 18 months.

The Days of New Cars financed for 60 months...are long gone, for those of us "With a Lick of Sense"