How do you avoid the expense – and intrusiveness – of a new car? The answer is simple: By not buying one!
Posted by freedomforall 8 months, 1 week ago to Economics
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"How do you avoid the expense – and intrusiveness – of a new car? The answer is simple: By not buying one! Of course, that begs the question about what other kind of car you ought to get.
And keep – if you already have one.
Makes and models matter less these days than years – in that pretty much all makes and models built since the early 2000s are (in general) more durable and reliable than the best-made cars were prior to then. Consider the fact that the age of the average daily-driven vehicle is now almost 13 years old. Thirty years ago, a thirteen-year-old car was considered an old car approaching the end of its useful life and was typically driven by a teenager as a hand-me-down or a first car by someone who couldn’t afford a new car just yet.
Today, lots of people can’t afford a new car – or don’t want one. That is part of the reason why so many people are driving “old” cars.
But which old cars are the right cars – if you want to avoid a car with all the things that have made so many people not want them, such as “advanced driver assistance technologies” and the attendant creepy “connectedness” that could lead to being disconnected by the government-corporate octopus, when the latter decides your “carbon footprint” is too big – or as punishment for not “masking up”?
Well, it gets back to years.
Most of the worst that has come to define new cars dates back only about a decade or so."
"How do you avoid the expense – and intrusiveness – of a new car? The answer is simple: By not buying one! Of course, that begs the question about what other kind of car you ought to get.
And keep – if you already have one.
Makes and models matter less these days than years – in that pretty much all makes and models built since the early 2000s are (in general) more durable and reliable than the best-made cars were prior to then. Consider the fact that the age of the average daily-driven vehicle is now almost 13 years old. Thirty years ago, a thirteen-year-old car was considered an old car approaching the end of its useful life and was typically driven by a teenager as a hand-me-down or a first car by someone who couldn’t afford a new car just yet.
Today, lots of people can’t afford a new car – or don’t want one. That is part of the reason why so many people are driving “old” cars.
But which old cars are the right cars – if you want to avoid a car with all the things that have made so many people not want them, such as “advanced driver assistance technologies” and the attendant creepy “connectedness” that could lead to being disconnected by the government-corporate octopus, when the latter decides your “carbon footprint” is too big – or as punishment for not “masking up”?
Well, it gets back to years.
Most of the worst that has come to define new cars dates back only about a decade or so."
