Won't buy a newer vehicle

Stated this for years.  TOO much Demanded of too small an engine.  Enganears do not care.

The only worry I have with new cars is all the computer stuff, so you get the longest warranty

Far too few can even drive a stick nowadays, no one can deal without AC for even a 10 minute drive in general world, all those bells and whistles are what sell did you not know that Jay, ask any used or new car sales person.

Funny thing the big 3 are all building new big cube diesel motors with more HP and torque.

I don't own anything newer than a 1989. And if I was unable to care for my vehicles myself I'd just lease whatever crap was on offer at the time and all the maintenance would not be my problem. That is all most everyone that gets a new vehicle is doing anyway except they are bearing the high costs of ownership and repairs of things that are designed to cause problems. Getting the gullible public to bear the costs of testing all of the gadgets that the PR department has convinced that everyone "NEEDS" is a higher profit business model than building anything that is built to do a job and last longer than the payment book.   

I would drive older stuff if you could find something that is not a heap of metal oxide surrounding an engine that probably still runs good. Main reason I would never buy a diesel pickup is the cost can’t be recouped over life because the rest of the truck will fall off around it. Not just body panels but springs, ball joints, control arms, FRAME! I was hauling a bed load of hay to a customer in my 92 Ford 8-10 years ago, drove over a small snow berm to get to their barn and my door wouldn’t open.

As for no 4 WD, that’s just silly. Obviously never been running tools and supplies out to an in field farm repair or hauled wood out of THE WOODS, pulled your neighbor’s vehicle out of the ditch or mud, or any such thing.

All of the road salt and dirt roads around here make old stuff that’s in good shape VERY hard to find. My dad took his 03 Bonneville in for brake lines last fall and they refused to fix it. Bottom of the car was disintegrating.

BuckSkin wrote: Regarding road salt, mud, and deterioration: Until his death and all my life until then, my father owned the biggest tire shop anywhere around in several counties; and, it was a never-ending stream of various vehicles coming in and out of the many service bays. One thing I saw a lot was Toyota and some models of Chevrolet pickups had "boxed" rectangular tube frames, claimed to be much stronger than a standard C-channel frame(if so, why do you never see them on big trucks?) When one of those tube-framed trucks was up on the hoist, we would always find several very obvious places where the frame had rusted completely through.

Yep, stronger when new, but holds dirt, salt, and moisture that you can’t wash away.