Do people simply drive more now? 20 years ago it seemed like people scoffed at a car if it had over 100k miles. Now it seems like 200-250k is the minimum before people get skeptical and every decent used car seems like it has absurd miles.
The car that changed used car mileage norms forever
Towns used to be smaller, now it feels like you gotta drive all over to do anything. Heaven forbid you gotta commute daily even just 30 minutes away.
Most people spend a ton of time commuting nowadays to have a job that barely pays the bills. 40 years ago you could get by just by having a normal job right in your town and have a house too.
>>29002301Contrary to what /o/ says, cars are more durable now and thus can withstand more miles driven than before.
Boomers were buying cars every 5-10 years sometimes even sooner. We had seemingly back to back car purchases when I was a child for truth be told no real reason besides "it looks old" or "I don't want it to break down"
yes. more highways everywhere. longer commutes to work because of overdevelopment and being priced out of the town with all the jobs. etc. it used to be a thing in the early 2000s where for sale listings of cars with high mileage would say "mostly highway miles" as if it was less bad, and I guess it was somewhat because the speed limit was 60mph and you would be cruising at low rpm... but nowadays people are running 80+ on the highway and passing eachother like they're in a race, so less powerful cars are often winding out rpm to do that shit. and the roads are beat to shit with shoddy patchwork so it's beating the dogshit out of suspension and causing vibrations all over the car.
>>29002312It's not just that, city living is so unaffordable people have had to move away to (((rural areas))), but still have to commute so they drive a lot that way.
>>29002301Cars last longer. My last LeSabre lasted to 400k before it got totaled. One trans rebuild, did it myself and it ran another 150k.
>>29002415Yeah. It’s totally that no one can afford the city and has nothing to do with changing consumer habits in the city.
>>29002301Most cars will do 300k easy. It's just that most people will stop doing oil changes long before that.
>>29002437Consoom habits in the city drove prices high and now the lower end tiered people have no other option but go away
20 years ago people had more spending money, higher quality of life and more availability of used cars
>>290023012 reasons1.) Cars now last longer and are more reliable. Go back to the 60s and 70s and cars would breakdown all the time. Starting in the 90s cars have gotten much more reliable and durable. But it's arguable that cars being made starting in 2016 and beyond have slipped in durability/reliability over cars made in the 90s, 2000s, early 2010s; but still way more reliable than cars made before the 90s.2.) Wages have stagnated relative to inflation. People just can't afford cars like they used too. Cheap stuff like food and electronics are cheaper to get now but more expensive assets like cars and houses are harder for the average person to afford. It's old people in retirement and rich people who have a lot of assets who can afford the houses and cars.
>>29002389Family of 4, 2 childrenDecent houseAlways clothed2 newish cars in the drivewayStocked fridgeHad many game consoles and shit, went on small vacations (no disneyland, once in awhile we went to the beach because my dad knew someone with a beach condo etc)And all this was done on an enlisted military salary. So like 50k to raise 2 kids, own a home, could afford fun things to an extent, you get the idea.Zoomers got dealt a shit hand
>>29002415Why the parenthesis over rural areas?
>>29002362the cars which are now old90s cars are not less reliable than 20s cars because cars are lasting longer now -- those are the 90s and 00s cars being old
>>29002415>>29002459Basically these and the rise of suburbsIll also add that cars rust way less now with advances in metal tech. If the frame of a vehicle is rotten there isnt any worthwhile repair to make it roadworthy again unless it has collectors value. Today, even in the rust belt, you can get over 10yrs and +200k km on most cars without any rustproofing before the frames start becoming an issueParts availability today is also way better than even 15-25yrs ago. Globalization is the highest its ever been. Whitebox parts from china arent gauranteed complete shit and cover more makes and models than ever before. International trade/shipping is easier than ever with ecommerce and translations accessible to anyone with internet making overseas parts supplies easier to access as well. Overnight parts from Japan is no longer a meme
>>29002362>cars are more durable now and thus can withstand more miles driven than before.the opposite is true, retardpic very much related
>>29002301I put about 20k miles per year on one car, that’s not counting my truck as well which I drive just as much as the car if not more, also not counting the jeep which I drive a ton as well
>>29002459People have been saying exactly this about car quality, word for word, relative to current year for the last 25 years at least, since I was a teenagerthe cars really do just keep getting more reliable and durable
>>29003525As if a rock can't smash a hole in a stamped aluminum pan too
>>29003526are you driving right now too?I have like 5k miles on a car a year, hasn't changed for me through any sort of move over the last decade.
>>29002389I remember people used to drive 70's cars in the 90's but you could tell they were run ragged, there a decent number of 80's cars in 2010. I specifically remember that a lot of 80's car would have slipping transmissions and engines would have signs of low compression. I remember the advice of some guy at the junkyard, "just tighten the bands", imagine someone doing that now.I think it might to do with overdrive transmissions letting the engines run slower and probably worse oil too. I think if you find a 70's or 80's now car its probably better than average as the ones that had real trouble were sent to the junkyard from 2001 to 2009.
>>29002362Cars peaked in the 2000s and are downhill since
>>29002793It doesn't know. Its just a libtard tourist. Their whole approach to pretend to be one of us and a libtard is to go>no U [thing you always say about us]
