Most Toyotas roll of the line pre-aged already.
Back in 2015 or so when I worked for the emissions testing place a guy brought in a Chevy Baretta. It was mint and looked like he'd shrink wrapped it and put it in a climate controlled room. I mentioned to a co-worker that I haven't seen a Chevy Baretta in literally 10-15 years. They just disappeared overnight. The Honda crx was like that too. Everywhere then gone.Something that when you see it you say, whoa I haven't seen one of those in a while!
My kid wondered what a 1989 Oldsmobile 88 was. He thought it looked cool. FWD brick with the 3.8.
So true! A few years ago, we did some work at the high school in one of the ritzy suburbs. It was a remarkable difference; the average age of the cars in the student lot vs. the average age of the cars in the contractor's lot. Apparently the kids in that town don't like to be seen driving old beaters.Around here on some of the construction sites I work at, if you were to close your eyes, spin around a few times and start walking blindly there is a 50% chance you run into a rusty 99-07 gm truck.
Those tensioners were common, I replaced mine more than once. Great car, I kept my 92 SL2 for 20 years, got it new.Recently the belt tensioner went out on my '92 Saturn. My wife asks if I'm going to finally park it. I'm like - Heck no, it only costs $30 to fix. An hour later (had to pull wheel, remove inner fender, etc) the old Saturn is back on the road with it's ice-cold AC.
Which war?Pre-war is old.
The big one, that ended in 1945, of course!Which war?
To me it's not about age but rather condition the car is in.
Both Kias we have are 10 y.o. now but to me they have same value as when they were brand new. They look same, they do same thing. I don't miss mostly useless modern junk they install in cars now, e.g. stop/start, lane assist, other junk. Actually, Forte got a 9 inch Android head unit with dash cam, rear view cam, wireless Carplay and Android Auto just before Christmas, so it added modern look and functionality.... Lol ... It was time to take Garmin and stand alone dash cam off.