impact of modern muscle cars on the old car market

moparmat2000 said
Very valid points Khalid. I just took a stroll thru the salvage yards in Dallas this weekend. Shook my head at all the 10-15 year old cars in there and said, "they all end up here" . I look at comnercials for the latest wundercar the manufacturers are trying to sell, and say well in 10-15 years it will end up in the junkyard. Had a co worker i nicknamed fast n furious. He had a lancer evo with the turbo awd setup. Nice car stock IMHO. But as he tried to FnF it, the weak links in the chain started to break. Plus he had to have his "mechanic" do the work as he wasnt capable, and blew the warranty by ******* with it. This was the same guy who thought my 67 barracuda weighed 4,000 lbs LOL.

That sounds like basically everyone my age LOL... all these new cars are designed to be junked after 10 years. Trying to keep our 2005 Passat with 210k on the road hasn't been straightforward, the parts that wear out and the way that they wear is so different compared to conventional old-school '60s-'80s vehicles. I remember the trans shift solenoid went out and left the car undrivable, all it did was sense electronically which gear the shift lever was in, even though there's a frickin cable also going between the two... like WTF do you need that for?? Of course it wasn't cheap or easy to find the part either, and was a royal pain to figure out!