[jfengel]

Also durability. I just end-of-life'd my car at over 300,000 miles. It was a 2007 Honda Fit that cost around $15,000. My previous car was a 1992 Honda Civic that cost around $12,000 and got 250,000 miles. Before that was a 1984 Civic that got 150,000 miles. (No idea what the original price was; I got it used.)

I hope my new car will reach 500,000 miles. Maybe not. It's my first non-Honda, who appears to have passed its quality crown to Subuaru. Regardless, anecdotally, price-per-mile seems to be going down.

(I will note, though, that gas mileage doesn't appear to be improving. I should perhaps have gotten a hybrid, but I really want an electric.)