@fortyseven The things that keep me from buying a new car are the things that are on the new cars that are not on my old car. It's not even that I'm trying to get every last mile out of my car. Which is frugal. And not even the sky-high unreasonable prices of new ones. Or the declining quality. It's active steps taken to make the new thing worse than the old thing.
#enshittification

@Pairko @fortyseven I have always decided if I had enough for a new vehicle I would instead buy a fully restored older vehicle. Much better quality. New vehicles are just electronic gadgetry with so many points of failure that you must trade them in before a cascade of problems. The way they are built you can't buy and replace a part; you must buy the parts surrounding the part because it's one piece. The whole thing is just planned obsolescence. A money machine for the corporation.

@Rick_d_card @Pairko @fortyseven With you on that, an old car retrofitted for electric propulsion.