I owned a 95 chevy truck until it hit 270k. My current vehicle is a 98 ford with 220k. Prior to that, I owned an 86 Saab with close to 300k. The odometers on al

I owned a 95 chevy truck until it hit 270k. My current vehicle is a 98 ford with 220k. Prior to that, I owned an 86 Saab with close to 300k. The odometers on all these had 6 digits. There may be statistics somewhere that say these are all outliers, but my experience has been that 90s vehicle are nowhere nearly as unreliable as you claim. Cars from this era were far easier to work on than those made more recently. That's one reason I keep buying old. So it's not obvious that buying a newer car which is more difficult to fix, and may have to get taken to a mechanic or the dealer is a better deal than an older one which I can fix myself, even if the older vehicle needs fixing slightly more frequently. Viewed this way, newer cars are both more expensive and provide worse value than cars from previous eras.