[Gordonjcp]

One 1998 Range Rover here with 130,000 miles on the clock, the other with 270,000 - and the latter did 100,000 miles in about six or seven years since I got it.

There's a guy on my forum with an ex-police Range Rover the same age as mine that is now considerably north of 400,000 miles.

[sokoloff]

Sure. Those are examples of cars that post-date many of the significant longevity improvements (galvanizing, better primers, electronic fuel injection, ABS) that are helping to drive up the average age. You can think of that 1998 Range Rover as offsetting one 2022 car to result in the average of just over 12 years.

Our 2005 CR-V and 2015 LEAF also offset each other to arrive at the average age.

Longevity improvements introduced 25 years ago pull the average age up far more strongly than improvements introduced only 10 years ago and an improvement introduced just last year has an effect indistinguishable from zero.