Used to be true, not consistently so since COVID or so. I had to buy a car about two years ago and brand new cars with full warranties were only $1-2k more and with better financing offers than 2-4 year used cars with limited warranties. It got better for a bit but apparently used car prices are spiking again
Used Electric cars are cheap, though. Everyone sees the battery tech advancing fast, so EVs depreciate quickly since the battery is a huge chunk of the cost.
In a classic case of “they don’t make them like they used to”, new ICE vehicles are less reliable than new EVs, and have similar (lack of) life cycle.
Older ICE vehicles may not be as efficient, but because they will still be on the road 10-15 years longer than their new equivalents means that they will have less environmental impact.
Our only hope is that recycling of depleted EV batteries becomes a thing in the near future and that recycling of modern composite materials improves to a point where we can use damaged body panels for make new body panels.
The newer car is just more complicated than the older generation one, and sometime this mean one simple sensor that isn’t crucial will sour the driving experience. And then newer car software tend to glitch out some time and then refuse to function, requiring patch to fix. This will also happen to EV as well, albeit EV have even less sensor than ICE, not having an engine cut out tons of sensor, thus giving them better reliability.
I have a customer that drive an overcomplicated Mercedes that the water pump will sometime refuse to run, causing the thing overheat. So far no one able to find out what’s the issue is, even the specialist. His accord 07 still run well today and he’s been refusing to sell it despite having the money to own the latest model.
If you have $ 30,000 to buy a car, you’re better off buying second hand. That’s the whole secret.
Used to be true, not consistently so since COVID or so. I had to buy a car about two years ago and brand new cars with full warranties were only $1-2k more and with better financing offers than 2-4 year used cars with limited warranties. It got better for a bit but apparently used car prices are spiking again
Used Electric cars are cheap, though. Everyone sees the battery tech advancing fast, so EVs depreciate quickly since the battery is a huge chunk of the cost.
In a classic case of “they don’t make them like they used to”, new ICE vehicles are less reliable than new EVs, and have similar (lack of) life cycle.
Older ICE vehicles may not be as efficient, but because they will still be on the road 10-15 years longer than their new equivalents means that they will have less environmental impact.
Our only hope is that recycling of depleted EV batteries becomes a thing in the near future and that recycling of modern composite materials improves to a point where we can use damaged body panels for make new body panels.
The newer car is just more complicated than the older generation one, and sometime this mean one simple sensor that isn’t crucial will sour the driving experience. And then newer car software tend to glitch out some time and then refuse to function, requiring patch to fix. This will also happen to EV as well, albeit EV have even less sensor than ICE, not having an engine cut out tons of sensor, thus giving them better reliability.
I have a customer that drive an overcomplicated Mercedes that the water pump will sometime refuse to run, causing the thing overheat. So far no one able to find out what’s the issue is, even the specialist. His accord 07 still run well today and he’s been refusing to sell it despite having the money to own the latest model.
I deliberately purchased a Suzuki Jimny because I can fix anything that is on it without specialised training or equipment.
The only special tool i would need would be a wrench for the front hubs.
The only specialised equipment is a scantool for configuring the VVT.
Well Jimnys/Samurais are just the fucking best anyway.