13th Jun 2022, 15:47

I can see eye to eye with you and the comment above yours. This goes for all makes and models. Convenience features (many unnecessary), safety, and fuel economy are improving. But it seems that's what automakers are focusing on; that and nothing else.

Yes, older cars required more maintenance, but that doesn't mean they weren't reliable.

Some voices on here like to use the notion that if a car had a 5 digit odometer it wasn't meant to go beyond that. To me, that is false, and it's not like it was an overnight decision to start using 6 digits. This started to surface in the mid to late 80s. Most of your domestic intermediate and large V8 cars from the 70s and 80s were just as reliable as anything today. A very good reason that odometers were switching to 6 digits could very well be that cars from the 70s actually DID roll the odometer back to zero once and even twice and the used car buyer never knew the true mileage. I currently drive a 20:year old Lincoln Town Car with 160,000 miles on the clock. Looking at the exterior and interior condition and how good the car runs, you would think that the car is only a few years old with only 60,000 miles.