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by war1025 2608 days ago
A car at 120k miles is nowhere near being "scrapped". What will actually happen in that case is someone else is going to buy it and put another 100k miles on it.
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What can you get for it, $3-5k? That's still $.21 - $.22 per mile only in depreciation and before factoring the time value of money.
Why sell it? The average millionaire drives a 15 year old car they bought new. A well maintained car will last a lot longer than most people give them credit for. You get tired of the old thing, but it will runs.
Welcome to Michigan. Or anywhere else that uses road salt.

Newer vehicles are a lot better, but cars age quite a lot faster with salted roads.

I live in Iowa. No stranger to road salt.