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Expecting a car to last decades and for the owner to keep the car for decades, is not realistic. Especially in this day and age. Such customers are exceptions
by decafninja 4y ago
Expecting a car to last decades and for the owner to keep the car for decades, is not realistic. Especially in this day and age.
Such customers are exceptions and I really doubt manufacturers take them into account.
- TexanFeller 4y agoNonsense, most of my family and the people in the town I grew up in kept cars for 10+ years or 200-300k miles if they could. Some of my wealthier relatives drove 25-30 year old pickup trucks. If you don't think cars need to last 10+ years you're completely out of touch with regular people. Even if you're a rich person that buys a new car every few years reliability should matter to you, because lack of it costs you money. Reliability and maintenance costs over time are the reason a Toyota/Honda depreciates very slowly while a luxury car like a BMW/Mercedes depreciates like milk. The latter will cost the next owner a fortune in maintenance to keep running properly. If anything longevity should be far more of a priority nowadays since a) modern manufacturing makes it easier to produce long lasting vehicles than when we were children and b) anyone shopping for EVs and/or interested in environmentalism should be demanding longevity to reduce waste.
- ryanwaggoner 4y ago10+ years != “decades”, and the actual data is that cars last an average of about 12 years. Your relatives with 25-30 year old vehicles are the outliers here.
- TexanFeller 4y agoThe first owner may not drive them for literal decades, but they should absolutely stay on the road that long.
- ryanwaggoner 4y agoThat’s not a measurement of how long the first owner has them on average, it’s a measurement of the actual lifespan of actual cars.