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I would like to see what posters here generally do?
Do you run your cars till they drop, or do you trade your new car when it is 3, 4 or 5 years old?
I ran my first car till it had 168,000. It could have kept going but too much rust for my taste. So I traded it for a car with 75,000 and ran it till it had 183,000. It was getting rusty and I was getting bored. Then I traded that one for a car with 35,000 and ran it till it had 150,000. That was my 2004 Chevy Impala. It still looked great and ran great. But I couldn't help myself and broke my rule and traded it for my new 2014 Chevy Cruze:>(
I should probably run this one till it drops, but I'm toying with the idea of a 2017 Cruze base (L) model with the manual...if they put a cruise control on it without charging me an arm and a leg forcing me into the next trim level up. (Hopefully they won't do the same thing they are currently doing with the 2016 model.)
Curious as to what you guys do when you face such a "dilemma."
Do you run your cars till they drop, or do you trade your new car when it is 3, 4 or 5 years old?
I ran my first car till it had 168,000. It could have kept going but too much rust for my taste. So I traded it for a car with 75,000 and ran it till it had 183,000. It was getting rusty and I was getting bored. Then I traded that one for a car with 35,000 and ran it till it had 150,000. That was my 2004 Chevy Impala. It still looked great and ran great. But I couldn't help myself and broke my rule and traded it for my new 2014 Chevy Cruze:>(
I should probably run this one till it drops, but I'm toying with the idea of a 2017 Cruze base (L) model with the manual...if they put a cruise control on it without charging me an arm and a leg forcing me into the next trim level up. (Hopefully they won't do the same thing they are currently doing with the 2016 model.)
Curious as to what you guys do when you face such a "dilemma."