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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so not what I was expecting to hear. Very impressive DCUM!![/quote]

Its not reality though. All one has to do is drive around town and pay attention to realize its totally false. I drive a 10 year old minivan and have the oldest car on my entire street if you don't count cars people have handed down or bought used for their teens. And frankly most of the teens have a newer car than I do. And as I said upthread, I'm not in a particuarly fancy area. [/quote]
yea, DCUM is an ...interesting crowd. Doesn't match reality of what I see in the DC area. [/quote]
I live in a nice area (N. Arlington) filled with generally practical, not overly flashy, well-educated people. I don't see a lot of old cars around here. I think that is somewhat of an internet trope, that all the ACTUAL wealthy people are driving 20 year old Camrys. I see a lot of recent model Highlanders, Pilots, MDXs, Acura sedans, Camrys, Accords, CRV, Foresters, CX-5, Ascent, Civics etc. A new mid-range Highlander is still like $45k. And yes there are plenty of MBs, BMWs, etc. [/quote]

I'm the PP with a (surprisingly) 7 year old Rav4, and it looks just like my neighbor's 6 month old Rav4, except for a detail on the side between the back window and trunk.  I think that people moved here from states with extreme weather and are assuming that every car with no dents or different colored panels is under 5 years old.  "Old" cars in DC that haven't been in wrecks look largely like newer versions of the same.  [/quote]

How is that possible? Toyota completely changed the body style of the RAV-4 in 2019, and the newer body style looks absolutely nothing like the older body style.[/quote]

"Nothing like the older body style" is a stretch.  The front end/grille changed a bit; from the side there's an extra black stripe between the top of the back window and trunk.  PPP would have to be a car fanatic to recognize tweaks like this for every make and model in her neighborhood in order to assert with such certainty that everyone's driving a new car.[/quote]

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