Being a "car keeper"

[easy62]

I don’t keep my vehicles like i use to, now that I’m retired i lease but the wife still works and she bought her vehicle. She drives the lease since we’re keeping her vehicle it’s a 2016 Kia Sorento with only 18,000 on it. I’ve had over 50 plus cars in my life, growing up in metro Detroit were i use to get cars pretty cheap.

[Cardiff Giant]

I've purchased 5 new cars since 2012. I missed the muscle car era in the 70s so I'm living it now.

My wife's car is 11 years old, however. It was mine before I turned it over to her in 2010 when our kids were born.

Everyone's different.

[J Baustian]

Originally Posted by Bummer

Very interesting posts . . .

I also treat my vehicles as a "Family Member" with a name and a clean place to sleep. I would no more part with one after a few years than I would part with a pet (dog, cat or otherwise).

Continuous payments (either lease or own) just do not make sense.

My Jeep CJ-7 is a 1986 model and my Chevrolet SSR is a 2005 model. There's not a newer vehicle out there that I would prefer . . . WHY TRADE?

I like to think of my daily driver the way a cowboy thinks of his horse. Not as a pet but as a working partner. Fifteen-plus years and looking forward to many more miles together.

[JaxRhapsody]

Originally Posted by cvetters63

You do realize that 10 years ago, your car was a new car. That's only 2008 and the cars aren't THAT much different now. So if a new car is crap, then logically that car was crap 10 years ago, and you wouldn't have bought it...

Realize that I own a Crown Victoria P71 and the only thing stopping me from having bought it in 2008 is 1) the price and 2) the fact that 08 is when the vic went fleet only sales and the town car and grand marquis would be the closest thing I could've bought. Both of which I do not like. It has(sans a manual transmission and HID lights and heated seats) pretty much everything a car actually needs. New cars are crap because they are stuffed full of crap that I think is just superfluous, creates lazy and detracts from actual driving. My car is pretty much what I want. V8 RWD sedan, performance potential, great looks, adequate(could use more) power. Cars now are vastly different than ten/fifteen years ago.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by J Baustian

I like to think of my daily driver the way a cowboy thinks of his horse. Not as a pet but as a working partner. Fifteen-plus years and looking forward to many more miles together.

Sometimes cars start out as one thing, then become another.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by HappyRider

Nobody went to grave wishing they had bought fewer cars. If anything, they wish they had bought MORE cars. Who are you saving it for?

maybe...(I'm a nobody)

Today I have 38 cars + other stuff (trucks, dozers, tractors, and a LOT of motorcycles...)

I will go to my grave wishing I had stopped at 5 cars...

Saving?

Daily driver cost me $35 bucks (whole car)... it's 40 yrs old, still getting 50 mpg on FREE fuel. Saving plenty of money for more toys!