15th Jul 2026, 15:41
60ies and 70ies so called gas-guzzler were often dumped, not because these were worn out, but because they were too expensive to run. Your full size car from this era were generally almost ridiculously over dimensioned and robust and easy to work on. However, the smog equipment these were fitted with could be difficult to tune, and often cars were dumped because people didn't bother spending money to get this fixed.
The golden era of cars is after this, I'd say late 80ies to about 2010. Why? Because cars still then were simple, and you at the same time didn't had to mess around with carburetor settings and ignition points like you had to do some decades earlier. The ultimate car from a reliability standpoint would probably be a 1995 to 2005 Toyota Camry.
12th Jul 2026, 20:40
And that was your opinion four years ago. The fact is today, most if not every brand built after 2020 has absolutely atrocious build quality. Reliability? You can forget that too. Most people are indeed keeping their older cars from whatever decade, steering clear of the overpriced trash that is dying on dealerships lots.
There will always be the old vs new discussion mainly focusing on the 70s and 80s.
You can spare me the whole 5 digit odometer talk also. It was in the middle 80s when this started to surface. Mainly because the better cars from the 70s were rolling the odometer back to zero, sometimes twice.