> It's a lot of effort, though. This x100. My wife and I recently bought a new car. We went into the process assuming that we'd buy a car that was a couple of

> It's a lot of effort, though. This x100. My wife and I recently bought a new car. We went into the process assuming that we'd buy a car that was a couple of years old. After 3 months of casual browsing and research, we bought a new car with a few modest upgrades. We even live in a place with plentiful public transit. We've only put 4000 miles on our 10 month old car - and that's _a lot_ of driving for us. The reason being is that we recently had our first child. We have to get him to daycare somehow before we can go to work. Any time our car is in for repairs, one of us simply stays home with him, as relying on the bus schedule to get us to an from the daycare reliably is a pain. Moreover, we're lucky we can do that on a moments notice. If we worked in jobs where we couldn't work from home, we'd be even more incentivized to buy something reliable. We had an 14 year old car before. We got a new car specifically to avoid having to think about it. As long as we find time for a regular oil change, everything keeps running smoothly.