Yep.

Will Modern Day Cars & Trucks Become Disposable and Not Repairable? - Ford-Trucks.com

 

nothing new here, most of them have been disposable or repair cost prohibitive for the past 5 years or so.

 

Is there anything for which this is not true?

 

I was kinda thinking the same question the other day. In 30, 40, 50 years is anyone going to say "Gee I wish I had kept that car it's a classic now."
The short answer is no.
There's not a car or basically any vehicle made today that's going to stand the test of time, like a 57 Chevy, or a 64 1/2 Mustang.
Today's Camaroes, Mustangs, Ferraris maybe the GT40s might be the classics of tomorrow, but who's going to be able to afford all the broken plastic crap on them.
I really don't see the after market repopping much of anything for any vehicle in the future.

 

Who even keeps their vehicles over a few years. Who drive them to 200,000+ miles. I buy the stuff most of you guys trade in for pennies on the dollar of new cost with under 150,000 miles & drive them until the completely **** me off with repairs then haul them to the scrap yard take my $150.00 & find another one. I own a 73 Galaxie 2 dr hardtop, 95 F150 4x4, 99 Dodge 2500 4x4, 99 Crown Vic P71, 01 Crown Vic P71, & and a 02 Chevy Cavalier. The Galaxie & 99 Dodge have less than 90,000 miles on them. I paid a total for all of them $12,600 I have owned the Dodge for 4 years, the 95 F150 4x4 3 years, 73, 99 Fords over 1.5 years the other two a year. I most likely will never have to buy another vehicle for some time. They all run great and get used regularly.
There are others like me but we are in the real minority these days. It seems like people change vehicles like pants daily.
So why made them to last for decades? I agree not much in the last years will ever be like the muscle car era of the 60s. But that era was more than just the vehicles also. It was about America & what we stood for, the pride & joy of our world superiority & the glory of MADE in AMERICA.