I am afraid I can't replace my car anymore - Lemmy.World

Hey this is weird topic but I have to ask other people about this. I bought my Toyota Yaris back in 2011, a really simple small car I was able to buy in cash without going in debt. I wanted to replace this car so many years ago but everytime I searched for new cars it was the wrong time. For example when I changed my job, I didn’t want to go in debt. Or when Corona the prices skyrocket for simple cars I didn’t want to replace it. Now, 13 years later I am still driving this car and today ( I am from Germany) it got through TÜV again. Good for me, I can still drive it around. I once again dont want to buy a new car now anyways (just built a house, got no money and expensive asf here). But now I am at a point I dont ever want to replace it ever again. I want to get this car through so many TÜVs as possible and use it til it just dies. It transported me to my first shift as a nurse, to my first night shifts, it transported me through my cancer back in 2013, it transported me to my first flight ever in Frankfurt and back, it never let me hanging. Heck, we crashed into three animals (two dears and a rabbit), someone opened the door against us at a parking lot on accident, we failed many times in parking houses cause of failing to stop and go on “ramps”… And this thing is still running good. It needed one new battery replacement in all these years. I feel really bad if I give it up one day. I dunno, it somehow feels like I’d lose a good friend at this point. The car itself really sucks, its slow on highways, it’s very loud, but come on… its doing what it should. Like I am giving up my identity. I can’t give us up. I am at a point it’s a “us” and “we” and not a car. It is me.