Monday Mileage Champion: Crossing The Bridge Of Vehicular Death

What makes an owner trade in their car?

This may not be a question for the ages. But the impact this question has on every automaker will very well determine their long-term successes and failures.

After all, manufacturers want you to become an evangelist for their chosen brand. Billions of advertising dollars can be hurled at the general public in an endless cacophony of overt and nuance ridden ways. But in the end, it’s the good graces and big mouths of us current owners that carries the most sway. No clever hamster, truck loving dog, or clueless celebrity can approach the collective influence of the word of mouth.

Your opinion matters most, bar none… and now with the potential of over 300,000 surveys and data sets to tabulate, I may need a bit of help with it all.

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  • Canam23 I had three Taurus wagons over a span of eleven years as company cars. All were midline models, (GL) with the 3.0 Vulcan motor. I put about 33K miles a year on them and to be honest, I liked them. They were comfortable, roomy, safe, handled reasonably well and I liked the look of the wagon. The key was to work deal on an extended warranty to cover the inevitable transmission failure at about 85K miles. Other than that they were very reliable for me.
  • 28-Cars-Later Next stop after will be Shanghai.
  • Kjhkjlhkjhkljh kljhjkhjklhkjh since most EVs are north of 70k specc'ed out + charger installation this is not news. You don't buy a new car every few years.This is simply saturation and terrible horrible third world country level grid infrastructure (thanks greedy exces like at the holiday farm fire where I live)
  • MaintenanceCosts I think pretty much all of the difference between this year and last year is that the right-wing noise machine, facing an audience crisis, has decided that EVs, and wildly distorted claims about EVs and EV mandates, are a good way to to get gullible people angry and start replacing lost traffic.