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My husband and I differ greatly in this regard.

He bores easily with vehicles and is always looking for something different. No matter how much he likes what he’s driving, he’s the guy who stops on the side of the road whenever he sees something better for sale. Since he’s always on the move and puts high miles on his cars, we buy him used every few years.

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I, on the other hand… heavily research, shop around and buy new every decade or so. My current ride is a much beloved 2014 Subaru Forester. Her name is Ethel and she only has 75,000 gentle miles. Every year my husband sputters about trading her for something newer, but the supply of new vehicles on the lots is still a problem here and I’m not buying anything I can’t personally test drive.

Ethel will be 10 next year so I suppose I’d better start researching.

How about you?

How old is your ride….

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24 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. I’m solidly Team Rivergirl on this one. It helps that I absolutely loathe car-buying, so I do it as infrequently as possible. But the real reason is that I’m a believer in keeping a car for a long time… I guess I start thinking about a new car when my current car starts needing repair after repair. I’m at year 4 with my Subaru Crosstrek, and I hope to keep it until retirement when I won’t have all the months of wintry commuting each school year. I won’t need something with all-wheel drive at that point, so I hope to switch to something more environmentally friendly… perhaps a hybrid or maybe even an electric. Who knows what the car world will have available in the way-too-many-years until I can retire?

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    1. We test drove the hybrid Forester this year and hated it. All that engine stopping and starting at red lights drove me nuts. As for electric, unless I had solar …. which I don’t… the cost to charge would be prohibitive. That, and there aren’t many super charging stations in Maine make it a no for me. I also wonder where all these used electric vehicles will be in ten years. The batteries are prohibitively expensive to replace so who would buy them?

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  2. I drive a planet. A station wagon Saturn made by GM. It’s my dad’s car, when he died I took it and now mostly my son drives it. There’s no rest, it only has 148,000 km on it which is relatively low for a 20-year-old car. I’d like to replace it but everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and it is still driveable so we are sticking with it for now because that’s just a cheaper option. Even used cars today are enormously expensive.

    But I wish it had some modern conveniences. It doesn’t even have seat warmers which is hard when your schlepping kids to rinks in the snowstorm at night…🙁

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  4. I would’ve guessed that hubby was the one to hold onto a vehicle until it became either an antique or undriveable (or both). Men — who can figure them out?

    As for me, I own a 20+ year old Honda with under 100,000 on it, and I will probably go before it does (I’m already an antique).

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  5. Spunky my black Kia Rio 5 was bought new in 2010 with only 69k miles (we tend to my wifes cars for vacations) Prior to that I had a used lemon dodge intrepid bought out of neccesity after filing for Chap 11, prior to that it was a new 2003 Black/Red Pt Cruiser with Flames that I bought eith my inheritance from my Grandmothers estate. Every previous car was used including a handmedown from my Mom when she passed and my first car was my brothers 1st car prior. I research and buy out of neccesity and whether ir not I want huge car payments.

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  6. Well, I’m going to go with your view of car shopping/keeping on this. I shop around, test drive and compare. My current vehicle, her name is Precious, is a 2010 Ford Fusion. She turned 13 this past September with gentle 147,113 miles on her. But with my job where I need to drive about 74 miles round trip to and from work, I’m starting to look around for something newer. But I love my car it’s been very good to me and maintenance has been very easy on me and my pocketbook.

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  9. My RAV4 will be 18 in January. It’s been a GREAT car with little more than routine wear-and-tear repairs, but in the last year or so it’s finally begun to show its age. Not terribly so, but it’s time to start thinking about a replacement in the next few years. It’s going to be hard to let this one go…

    odd Note: I’ve had this car the longest, but it’s the only one I’ve never given a pet name. My favorite name was “Papaya Carlisle”, a 1973 Super Beetle that I had for a few years in my early 20s…

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