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In Reply to: WaPo has run a few articles over the last year... posted by ghost of olddude55 on February 23, 2020 at 12:31:18:
the cheapest car you can own -- is the one you already have.
:)
There is truth to that, and we usually run ours into the ground.
The only exception to that is if one strands me a couple of times and/or if I get to the point that I don't trust it (which is what happened to my '06 RAV-4).
That RAV-4 never actually let me down, but it consumed oil (as many if not most of them did, apparently) and it had some weird A/T idiosyncracies. I don't like nor trust A/Ts much anyway, so I ditched it when it was still fairly low mileage and (generally) running well & in generally good condition (December 2018).
Mrs. H got 246,000 trouble-free miles from her '05 Ferd, umm... Ford Escape Hybrid... although it developed terminal structural rust issues that led to its demise :(
all the best,
mrh
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