How long can you realistically expect a new car to last?

[Anonymous]

There is always going to be someone who says their 15 year old Toyota Camry has gone 280,000 miles with only oil changes. But for luxury brands, following scheduled maintenance, not driving like a maniac, and garaging, how long can you expect a car to go before things start breaking, especially with all the electronics on today's vehicles?

[Anonymous]

10 years max.

Electronics are hard to keep going after that.

Cars built 15 years ago were built better and had less shit on them hence less to break.

[Anonymous]

I agree that the more electronics, the worse they age. The new electric vehicles have even more problems: usually the engine is designed to not be opened post-sale, or only with great difficulty. So having an electric battery or an engine problem (whatever it might be) essentially means you need to buy a new vehicle. It would be very costly to repair.

My basic petrol Japanese cars are 19 and 14 years old. They've been sitting out in my driveway, exposed to the elements, all this time. We drive them mainly for short distances, so they don't have a ton of mileage. Repairs have been minor so far.

I love the idea of "clean" energy, but not the omnipresence of electronics in a vehicle, or the reality that current battery technology is actually quite polluting. Not to mention that electric battery fires are much harder to put out than a regular fire. Plus the repair issues...

Don't know what to buy when our cars finally pass on.

[Anonymous]

Well we have two cars 26 years old and 20 years old both are going strong (knock on wood). You just have to maintain them. They both have ONLY city miles on them too!

[Anonymous]

This isn't a luxury brand, buy I expect 10 years out of my Honda Odyssey. 7 years already and not one issue. I think after 10 years everything will still be fine, but it will need things replaced or more expensive repairs.

[Anonymous]

If we have a moral obligation to conserve the environment, then cars should be built to be both low-polluting and infinitely repairable. Electric cars *should* be able to meet this standard but are so far a major disappointment, and instead are following the disposable appliance trend.

The lie for the last 15 years is that we have to be early adopters to support the industry, but that is not bearing fruit.

Life-cycle pollution and repairability continues to be awful for electric vehicles.

[Anonymous]

Luxury vehicles are most especially NOT made to last. Because the market of people who want them is the same market who wants to upgrade every 5 years to the newest thing.

There are most likely exceptions to that, but as a general rule, there's a reason Honda/Toyotas are the workhorses on the road for 20+ years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is always going to be someone who says their 15 year old Toyota Camry has gone 280,000 miles with only oil changes. But for luxury brands, following scheduled maintenance, not driving like a maniac, and garaging, how long can you expect a car to go before things start breaking, especially with all the electronics on today's vehicles?

If you consider Lexus a luxury brand, it will last you for as long as you want to maintain it. It's a lux Toyota. We have two older Toyotas and a newer Lexus SUV. There is no reason any of them should ever go to the crusher.

If you think it has to be German or British or Italian then you're gonna have a bad time.

[Anonymous]

All our cars have lasted 12-20 or more years. Take care of them.

[Anonymous]

A 1903 Cadillac Rear Entrance Tonneau model is the oldest Luxury Car still in operation.

So 111 years can be done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A 1903 Cadillac Rear Entrance Tonneau model is the oldest Luxury Car still in operation.

So 111 years can be done.

Not a luxury car. No giant-ass screen.

[Anonymous]

My Ford F150 is going strong at 15, and I expect to get another five.

I have had to do some minor repairs over the years, but nothing even close to worth replacing it.

[Anonymous]

My dh just paid 7k to fix stuff on his 2017 traverse with 2400 in deferred work (on electronics). I'm guess we'll get three more years.

[Anonymous]

My last BMW went after about 10 years but only 50k miles. The car was dealer maintained and everything seemed to go at once. Our Subaru is still going strong after 15 years

[Anonymous]

I had a 1975 Mercedes until it went to Heaven in 2012. Just too much at once needed. It needed convertible top, new seats, AC broken, windows were sticking, radio broken, rear springs shot, tons of rust under car, front springs sagging, it overheated, needed new paint job, broken odometer.

It was so expensive to fix I only fixed thing that stopped it from moving. That was the issue. My Camry and Taurus repaires were cheap. My Mercedes we are talking even redoing seats properly thousands of dollars.