On 4/5/2021 11:29 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
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In the past, I twice replaced a perfectly good car for no real reason
other than I was tired of what I was driving.




One reason may be that the newer cars have many safety or nice features.

You can get ones with many cameras on them and some that you can set to
follow at a distance a car in front of you and some that automatically
put on the breaks if it thinks you will be in a collision.

I talked with a salesman that was trying to sell a 3 year old car with
only a few thousand miles on it. It had belonged to the wife of an
exective of a large company. Her husband told her it did not look for
people of their position to drive a car that was more than a couple of
years old.
Thatg was back when one could usually tell a make and year of a car from
a block away. Now they look very similar to each other.



Salesman for one of my suppliers went on his own. Bought a new car
because he did not thin it approrpriate for a business owner to have an
old Toyota with 340,000 miles.