>Try getting an old car past new emission standards. Outside of California and a couple other states making a car pass emissions until it ages out of the emiss

>Try getting an old car past new emission standards. Outside of California and a couple other states making a car pass emissions until it ages out of the emissions testing program at 15-25yr is not cost prohibitive. >A tranny rebuild isn't cheap. Transmission replacement is of similar cost and happens around the same mileage as a battery pack replacement. >I don't know of any cars junked for lack of new car smell. His point was that the people that buy new cars typically trade them in and buy another new one for reasons other than it being no longer economically viable to run.