The cars people keep for 15 years

I have two cars I have owned over 15 years, a Buick and a Lincoln.
Last Feb. I sold a car I owned for 52 years.
I have four more I owned for over 10 years
None are Toyotas

 

or is it, 'the people who keep cars for 15 years'?

 

I still have my 2000 Toyota Tundra.
A few years ago we gave away our 1996 Camry to my brother-in-law. It is still going in spite of his tendency to kill cars. I just put new spark plug wires on it last month. (mice chewing the old ones.)

 

A 1989 Toyota Corolla All-Trac Station Wagon was my daily driver until 2000, when it became my daughter's daily driver until 2009 .

A 1962 Ford Falcon 2 door station wagon was my daily driver until 1975, when I moved to Phoenix and left it to my younger brother. In 1977 when I got back a tree had grown through it. That is close.

 

my '05 dakota is closing in, with 27,000 miles. but my daily driver is getting long in the tooth at 6 years and 55,000 miles.

 

Wow.

 

Err, the average age of us on the highway cars is 12years old, so , the majority of people keep their cars, and a bunch for more than 12 s.

 

My 2006 Dakota is closing in on 7,100 miles and my daily driver is closing in on 1,500. Lol

I never have to buy another car, I just need to drive the ones I have.

 

38 years of enjoying the convertible. (The top half at least!)

 

I kept a Legacy for 17 years, and an Accord for 23 years (overlapping). That Accord is now 31, and driven regularly by a 'kid' a few blocks away.

The Integra I bought for my then-gf (now spouse), 29 years ago next month, is still her daily driver.

That doesn't follow. Most people resell their cars much sooner than that, passing them on to another owner. Lather, rinse, repeat. Only a minority are kept such a long time by the original buyer.

 

That’s cheating! You put the top half on a Prius v.

 

I expect the average car is not still owned by its first owner. It was bought used by the current owner.

 

Hot Wheels don't count . . . .

 

Better quality raises average age of cars on U.S. roads to 11.5 years - LA Times

 

Here is a quote from the article.

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So, people buying cars new keep them an average of a little less than 6.5 years.
People buying used car keep them for a little over 5 years.

 

My daily driver is 12 years old with 175,000 miles.
It's only been to the dealer for one non-warranty repair (fuel sender) and it's never failed to start or get me back to the barn.

Interesting enough, I was tempted to break one of my rules and trade it in when we bought my CFO's car (6 years ago) but the dealer insulted me with the offer and I've been driving it ever since as a beater.

I would, without hesitation, get in it right now and drive from coast to coast, in the winter, and without a cell phone.

Paid for cars are more fun to drive.

 

I drove my 20 year old Toyota Corolla Station with my daughter, on Nevada/Oregon 140 for 150 miles without passing a house or business, and it hit me, I need a car I can rely on. ( think now there are businesses at Denio Junction)

https://goo.gl/maps/i5EBb2omgAm

 

I went in an American-model (Chinese-built but to US specs) Ford recently, and I was really surprised by the improvement. It actually felt like a properly-made car.

Until, oooh, at least 2005 and maybe later, American cars were seen as a bit of a joke by the rest of the world: while the engines were bulletproof (possibly because they were so low-tech), bits of trim and even whole fascia panels would start falling off as soon as you bought it. It's one of the reasons that even Ford and GM cars sold outside America have been completely different cars to the ones sold in America: the rest of the world wouldn't tolerate American quality levels. But now they seem to be making global models, and they do seem to have upped the quality. The US-model Ford I went in last month was close to Korean standards in the way it felt inside, which amazed me.

So I guess that article about better quality could be true.