3 ms·

Your comment reminded me of this video, "Why do mechanics buy 'grandma' cars?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNOEMEX-2ow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNOEM

• Frost1x 5y ago
  I like older grandma cars in an additional sense: they're usually low mileage, gently driven, garage kept, and well serviced because older people tend to take care of their cars so they last and also often don't use them that much. Most all of my vehicles have been 10+ year old vehicles, gently used, and bought for a great price from some elderly person who no longer drives/can drive or from a relative selling their parents/grandparents old ugly car they inherited and don't want. The older designs are often geared at making them easily maintainable vs new designs. This is shifting a bit and you're not starting to get in the early 2000s unless you want to get something much much older. You do have to worry about seals, gaskets, rubber parts that have dry-rotted/cracked etc. or start to fail but the rest of the vehicle is usually in fantastic shape from my experience. I see many vehicles 10+ years old with less than 50k miles on them. It's probably hard to find anything like this any more and I really hope the pandemic doesn't inspire everyone to start picking these older used options long term because then it's going to get more expensive for me to find good reliable cheap cars.