The industry seems to have created this problem for itself by spending huge amounts of marketing money to link new cars with financial status, and pushing hard

The industry seems to have created this problem for itself by spending huge amounts of marketing money to link new cars with financial status, and pushing hard on financially engineered products like 2-year leases and 0-down loans. Single year product cycles ruin pretty much everything they touch, from automobiles, to phones, to operating systems, to laundry machines.