[RedDevil]

The 5th car my parents bought was a '85 Honda Civic, and it lasted longer than their 4 previous cars combined. It was a good car. I bought it from them when it was 7 years old and kept it for almost 12 years since, until rust had taken so much of the structure that it had no chance of ever passing the MOT again. Considering it has spent a reasonable part of its life at the shore line, often getting covered in salty soot from the inbound gale winds that killed other cars in a year or 3, it was a monument of resilience.
Yet, comparing it to the cars you can get now, it is an old-timer. Worst of all, survival chances in a collision would be ... not good.

My wife had a '86 Golf Diesel which I took to use after the Civic's MOT demise. One day a lease punk cut me and slammed the brakes and the poor Golf, not having ABS, inevitably slid against the towing hook of that @$$#0&€. The towing hook went right through my front bumper, grille, metal plating and only met some kind of resistance when it met the radiator. When we pulled the cars apart the ^&^%^had no damage at all, while my headlights were facing each other...
I realized that the Golfs crumpling zone started at my feet rather than anywhere in front.
(At home I was able to bend everything back into place with my bare hands... and hang the remains of the front bumper and grille with some duct tape. I'm a biker too, I know the drill )
Bought a '98 Nissan Almera after that, then a '11 Honda Insight. Sold the Nissan in perfect working order, just because I got wary of the fuel and repair bills.

I dumped the Golf because I did not feel safe any more. It had no value for years so I was running it depreciation free. I just felt that even biking was safer than driving that.
I dumped the Almera with the calculator in hand, but aware that I replaced a car that only got a 2 star collision rating with one that has 5 stars. And so far I've read stories of several people that had collisions in an Insight, but none of them was seriously hurt. I know, the deceased don't ventilate their opinion, but even so I was impressed.

I see a lot of cars ending their life not to general wear but to collision damage or economical incompetence. Are you really willing to keep something on the road that is both costing you money and about to kill you when you hit something or get hit?