Philosophy of cars

[sauerkraut]

I like to buy common vehicles so that it'll always be easy to get parts. Buying some short production run car or some odd foreign job (or the like) can make it tuff in the future when you need simple things like belts & hoses or worse, if you need a starter or water pump and auto parts places have to order it and it'll take a week and when it arrives it's the wrong part or the  wrong model number or something like that... I like to buy cars that I keep for many years. I don't  buy a new or used  car every few years. If you trade in your car every year or two years then it does not matter if parts are hard to find or not. I also like cars with all iron engines but today just about all cars have aluminum engines. That's just me...

[heironymouspasparagus]

I like to buy common vehicles so that it'll always be easy to get parts. Buying some short production run car or some odd foreign job (or the like) can make it tuff in the future when you need simple things like belts & hoses or worse, if you need a starter or water pump and auto parts places have to order it and it'll take a week and when it arrives it's the wrong part or the  wrong model number or something like that... I like to buy cars that I keep for many years. I don't  buy a new or used  car every few years. If you trade in your car every year or two years then it does not matter if parts are hard to find or not. I also like cars with all iron engines but today just about all cars have aluminum engines. That's just me...

I had the same thought for a long time...then Ford, in their infinite lack of wisdom, did away with what was once an all pervasive automobile - the Crown Victoria/Grand Marquis family.  Now, just try to buy some of the critical parts for 90's through early 2000's....  I still like the cars, but will never buy another Ford anything, every again.