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I don't know what you are expecting. A 200k mile car that lasted ten years before an accident is something I would consider as "well built". How many miles do
by maxsilver 5y ago
I don't know what you are expecting. A 200k mile car that lasted ten years before an accident is something I would consider as "well built".
How many miles do you drive each year? What kind of car did you expect to get, and how many miles+years would you expect it to operate at to be considered "well built".
- throwaway89848b 5y agoYou have misunderstood something. Yes, that car was worth the price. It is the benchmark against which I am measuring newer cars. "Cars today", which is what we are talking about, give an experience that is unlike that one. (Including the Chevy Bolt @ $14k that you mention in your other comment, which is more like a Walmart car than a Costco car, and nowhere close to the price point I mentioned or the cost/value ratio of the reference car.) That that car lasted 200k, and would have been on its way to last another 100k at least, underscores my point, not undermines it. For the reason above, the question is not "What kind of car did you expect?" It's "What kind of car do you expect to get?" And the answer is, "Considering the opportunity we have had to make technological progress, I would expect that I should be able to find a car today that is at least as good as that one. I should definitely not expect to be disappointed to find that as a general rule what's available is so much worse."
- lostlogin 5y ago> How many miles do you drive each year? Maybe the OP bought it with 190k on the clock, but surely the answer is going to be close to 200k/10?