No, I want to take on bad debt to buy a car for the next 30 years. Fortunately my idea of a holiday is possible with this car
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I wish I was younger than 26! Lol
Holding onto a car for 30 years is not practical.
Even bullet-proof Landcruisers etc have breakdowns and rear main seal leaks and so on.
Also, in the world of retail we now currently are in, every car manufacturer is stocking less, and less parts to try and make money.
What's going to happen is your 20 year old car is going to be hard to get parts for, and not at a day's notice. Anything older than that is going to be worse.
This is already happening with many makes and models. Local suppliers simply cannot stock millions of various parts for every make and model on the road. They would go broke.
Now, they are stocking the main stuff, and anything a bit less common for breakages and wear and tear...wait and wait, and maybe not available at all..
Anything a bit more exotic, not as common, and more than about 15 years old (my "yellow line" at the workshop is 1990 for everything, but some more popular cars it is 1995")...harder and harder to get parts for, and expensive.
We had to get a front passenger side rubber window seal for a 1995 Prado a few months ago...had to order it ex-Japan and will cost the customer $250 incl GST.
It took 6 weeks to get it.
Now i do love 4x4ing and i drive an 86 landcruiser with 500k km. this thing will go where not alot of 4x4s could go. Cost me bugger all payed cash.
Good luck with that.