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Old 12-01-2012, 04:19 PM   #17 (permalink)
JRMichler
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Originally Posted by jakobnev View Post
That might resemble valid reasoning if (and only if!) people took their 3-5 y.o. cars to the junk yard! They don't, they sell them on the used market, and the cars get typicaly over a decade more of use.
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Econ 101: Each new car sale triggers a 3-5 year old used car sale, which in turn triggers an older used car sale, which in turn ....

The chain ends with some minimum wage person buying a 15 or 20 year old clunker hoping it will hang together for more than a year.
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06 Canyon: The vacuum gauge plus wheel covers helped increase summer 2015 mileage to 38.5 MPG, while summer 2016 mileage was 38.6 MPG without the wheel covers. Drove 33,021 miles 2016-2018 at 35.00 MPG.

22 Maverick: Summer 2022 burned 62.74 gallons in 3145.1 miles for 50.1 MPG. Winter 2023-2024 - 2416.7 miles, 58.66 gallons for 41 MPG.
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