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Originally Posted by cbaber
No matter how inefficient your car is, keeping it for 560,000 miles is way better financially and environmentally than buying a new car every 30-80k miles like most people do (and the car companies want you to do).
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A Euro 1 car (the EU standard as of July 1992) is 3 to 5 times more pollutant per gallon than a current Euro 5 car in terms of HC, NOx, and CO .
The older stuff is almost off the scale in comparison.
So, keeping a 1964 car on the road is not exactly better environmentally.
It only gets worse as more miles are put on such ancient vehicles.
What is gained by not having to produce a new car, is quickly lost by the excessive pollution caused by an old banger.