Turns out high quality and superb reliability are not such good things – for the car companies, anyhow.
The word is out that you don’t have to sign up for five (or six or seven) years of crushing monthly car payments — plus the insurance, plus the property taxes — on a brand-new car in order to drive a trouble-free, looks-like-new car. Because today’s used cars are that good.
Because today’s new cars are that good.
After a solid quarter century of really working at it, the automakers have achieved the Nearly Indestructible Car. The make/model hardly matters. Treated even semi-decently, most any car built after about model year 2000 can be counted on to go for 200,000 miles or more of mostly trouble-free driving.
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