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by SR2Z 142 days ago
You say this like the average age and reliability of cars hasn't been skyrocketing for years.

Toyota offers a 10-year warranty on new cars, which would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.

You can't update the infotainment, but the engine controls have remained modular because it's simply too hard to convince people to buy truly unrepairable cars. Tesla did it, and once people realized that gently tapping a Model 3 was likely to total it resale values plummeted.

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My mother drives a 12 year old car. If you don't use it much and have a parking garage cars are pretty much indestructible.
The average age of cars on the road is about 13 years!

2006 Tacoma's are selling for like $5k less than their original MSRP!

~20yr ago the Koreans were offering 10/100k as a "we stand behind our product" signal.