Used cars are ultimaely a cheapsakte thing, they are a compromise either because the buyer can't afford or doesn't want to pay for a new or nearly new one.
This is the only part i disagree with.
There are some of us out there who actively do not want what car makers now make, so used cars are our preferred choice, some of us, me, don't like almost anything made in the last 10 years if it comes to it.
We can afford new, but we don't want to, nothing against people who want new cars for all the different reasons they do, good luck to them, their hard earned to spend as they wish, but be aware some of us wouldn't want almost anything new currently for sale in this country because we actually dislike what's on offer, plus my hard earned to spend as i wish.
Call us Luddites if you like, but cheapskates does not necessarily apply, i don't suppose my motoring is any cheaper by buying used and overmaintaining, and i wouldn't suggest anyone else copies my way, but my way provides me with vehicles i actually want to own and drive, not having to put up with the latest design they suggest i have.
One size does not fit all, yet.
If i was to buy a new car for the sheer pleasure of it, it would probably be a Subaru WRX purely for its sheer excellence (but would have to be a grey to get the auto box), but no use to me because it would have to be an estate to accommodate 3 dogs 2 of which are compulsive swimmers even if they have to break the ice to get in, by the way i could afford it too.
I could buy a new or newish Landcruiser, but i dislike the new models intently and they've got too complicated, Toyota battered them with the ugly stick like they've done everything else, bar the GT86, i like my old Landcruiser, the Mrs loves her old Outback, its scraped and battered and filthy from muddy dogs, but it goes like hell, its totally reliable, she can park it anywhere and if it collects another scrape she shrugs it off, when it dies she wants another.
Edited by gordonbennet on 24/11/2017 at 11:10
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