31st Mar 2016, 09:32

Quite a long comment, but I agree with what you are saying. It seems some people on this website have a hard time believing a car can make it to 100,000 miles or more without having serious problems. In general with proper maintenance just about any car is perfectly capable of doing well in excess of 150,000 miles or more; certainly cars of the last 20 years or so. However I know people that kill cars in less than, say only 60,000 miles - they drive aggressive/don't service them properly and that's why. Also maybe in the past they have been unlucky and had a few cars that have had a hard life or perhaps aftermarket parts of lower quality were used and don't last as long as they should. There are many reasons why one car is scrapped to another and some seem to last forever, but generally if you service them on time, don't drive like a maniac, then you should have no problems from a budget car manufacturer to a premium one. Also some cars are scrapped due to not being economical to fix - they may run perfectly OK, but to be road legal the repairs may outweigh the car's value and hence that is why they end up in the junk pile, which is a waste if you ask me. We live in such a throw away world now.