Some of what you mentioned is probably due to poor maintenance. If you want to keep a car for 10 years you have to maintain it properly and keep it clean. A liitle wax on the paint once in a while doesn't hurt either. I just turned in a 2003 PT Cruiser after a 4 year lease and it looked as good as anything on the dealers lot. I get my cars serviced regularly, oil change every 5000 km. I wash it once a week, weather permitting, and wax it at least twice a year. A lot of people these days lease a car and don't do anything to it, no service, little or no washes, and at the end of the lease it is a pile of junk. It doesn't matter who manufactures the car, it will not stand up to that kind of treatment.
Quote from: mar1990 on April 28, 2007, 10:21:54 pmThings should improve for my crappy Ford windstar. Its hit 8 years and the graph appears to level out...if you squint.... By that age, there are only a few left - the best of the best - thus the apparent "leveling out". (Sort of kidding.)
Things should improve for my crappy Ford windstar. Its hit 8 years and the graph appears to level out...if you squint....