Our older car is a 2002 Toyota Sienna. It’s starting to show it’s wear body wise, but otherwise keeps on moving along. It’s likely not worth anything for trade in so we plan to keep it till it naturally expires.
I wonder if the battery could be adapted for home use as an emergency backup.
Our 1993 4Runner keeps chugging along. While my wife was in the front yard, a guy walked up to her and offered to buy it from her. We are not ready to sell it yet. It is still good transportation.
Oh, we are now penalized $ by the state of Colorado for driving an old car. It is an extra fee tacked onto our license renewal.
I bought a 2001 Mercury Moutaineer in 2002 with 34K miles on it and the 5 liter engine. My son is still driving it and its at 200K miles. It has been wrecked twice and repaired. Other than an alternator being replaced and one set of plugs and wires the rest of the repairs have been minor along with oil changes every 5-6K miles. It is starting to show it’s age on the body in a couple of places. He is hoping to get another year or two out of it before buying a replacement.
My other son is driving my old 2006 Grand Marquis that just rolled over 100K miles, worst problem with it has been replacing the two front seat belts which were setting off the airbag sensors. Just done routine maintenance and oil changes.