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I always hear it from people who just bought a car. I also promised this to myself when I bought a car 5 years ago but I can't imagine myself driving the same car in 2025.
I'm tempting to buy a Tesla Model X next year and keep it for 10 years
Did you promise that to yourself when you bought your car? Did you keep your promise, why and why not?
Well, it’s not that crazy if you aren’t driving a lot more miles than the average driver, you aren’t an aggressive or downright bad driver, and you have a reliable vehicle.
We're on year 13 with our Outback and have gone around the idea of replacing it with a newer Outback that's a significant improvement to that model. Still it's hard to justify getting rid of it and paying for something new when it's running well and only gets driven about 4x a week.
We're also holding back from sheer inertia and how we'd have to go a couple hundred miles to find a Subie dealer that doesn't price $3K over MSRP for 'market price adjustment', paint protection, useless extended warranties, etc.
I had a car that I really liked.
Said that I'll drive it till grandson graduation - he's 4.
After 2 accidents in short period and undiagnosable problem, I sold it. Never really regretted. I am superstitious, I believe in cars becoming accident magnets. Didn't want a third one.
Longest I had a car was 8 years. I got real bored with it, though that was likely the only one I regret selling. Was very good car. Just tired of it.
A friend of my dad bought a Chevy S-1 extended bed pick up new in '98. Before he passed away in '03, much to the surprise of my dad, he told his wife to give my dad the truck. My dad owned it until 2015 when he passed it on to me, the first owner under the age of 80. I sold it last summer because, with my wife can't drive any more, there wasn't any need to buy gas and pay taxes on two vehicles. But it's still running great, and looking great, and only had 86,000 miles on it when I let it go.
Still driving my 2004 Honda Civic I bought new. Up to 189,000 miles and it will turn 16 years old this September, I don't see getting rid of it anytime soon!
Longest I've kept a car was 13 years, but eventually I got tired of it. My current fun car I've had about 10 years... I'm tired of it now too, and I've been looking to replace it, but I'm not quite at the point where I can justify the expense for a new fun car.
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