Cars that owners tend to keep a long time

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01-18-20 | 11:50 AM

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SW17LS

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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill

I have no doubt Toyota Owners are in a higher income scenario than some of the other mainstream brands. Owning a Toyota or Honda only really makes sense if you keep them for longer than average. A lot of high Income earners drive Toyotas and Hondas from what I am reading.

Why would you think that?

01-18-20 | 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by 97-SC300

The reason people don't keep German cars long is not worse reliability, but because most buy them as a status symbol. It's not cool to drive a 10 year old S Class or a 10 year old Audi.... gotta keep up with the Jones's and buy the new updated model every 3 years .

Yes + if you really want to jump up the prestige ladder, lease a new MBZ every 2 years.

01-18-20 | 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill

All Japanese, not surprised

Not one America brand car on the list...or Korean

I never liked any foreign vehicle until I saw a 2006 IS. When the 2006 recession hit that fall we sold our house & moved to a rental, sold our '99 Jaguar & bought a new 2007 IS 350.
Drove it until it had 95K miles & sold it to buy a new one in 2015. Couldn't find a new IS350 in the dark blue like our 2007 so we bought our 2015 GS F-Sport that is blue. It & my 2000 Boxster S are our forever cars as long as we can buy gasoline.