"... in the new car the cigarette lighter is always powered, so I will have to wire into the fusebox..."

Don't you remove it anyway, when out of the car? I remove mine.

Had a couple of Mini 0803 cams before that but one died shortly after purchase and the other about a year later.

ditto, one went back for refund, son had one which died just after a year.

There are about 4 or possibly now 5 Transcend 200's in the extended family fleet. all giving sterling service.

Another vote for the Nextbase 402G - good even at night.

that's odd, I have the 0803, been using it for about 3 or 4 years and it's still working, I use a small sim card as don't need much history, less than 1 hour is good enough for me. As I've just purchased a new car i've just moved dashcam to the new car, unfortunately this has an "always on" cigarette lighter socket so am considering whether to hard wire into the fuse box, or possibly upgrade to a twin camera set up, front & rear windows (provided I can find a system I like). Drive 20k miles a year so dashcam gets plenty of usage.