The fact that newer cars are more complex and seemingly expected to have a shorter life has lead to an odd situation where parts availability and price may actually be far better for older cars than newer ones, especially due to the aftermarket.
Is this true? From my memory, many car brands were only good for 100-150k miles when I was a kid. Now it seems like just about all cars made in the last decade are expected to be viable to 200-300k miles
It is funny, how here in Russia there are a lot of talks that modern engines need rebuild after 100K-150K of KILOMETER (not miles), we could not buy car with "million-worth" engine anymore!
It is very common view, that modern cars are much more safe, comfortable, ecologically sane, faster, and even reliable in first 1-2 years, than old ones, but they will break up and require very expensive repair (engine re-sleeving or re-boring with full rebuild) much, much sooner than older ones.
What is interesting to me, that USA users write about new cars that they expect 150K+ miles from them and it was not so in the past. Completely opposite to what users think here.
