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The bulk of vehicles on the road here are newer...ie less than 15 years old. Heck, at least half of them are 10 years or less.
There's fewer and fewer people who can work on their own vehicles, and fewer yet who will keep putting money in to an older car. Most get retired soon after two hundred thousand kilometers are on the odo, because there's little resale value; as soon as something major goes after that, it's bye-bye...
You have the odd person, like myself, who will snatch them up for cheap when that happens, and breathe new life in to them. Only because I can do my own work. If i had to pay someone else to? forget it.
The cost of living is also high here in this city...for most, if you can afford to live here, you can afford to drive something newer. Get out of the city proper and the age/quality of cars drops off. People don't care as much if their car is rusty and burning blue when there isn't much of an audience.
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