have you not heard of built-in obsolesence?
I don't know what the future holds, but if I don't work, hence don't commute, then I will only be doing 3000 miles a year, so in ten years time this car will have caught up with my Honda in mileage terms. If I do work then it's all academic anyway; two months labour (contracting) has paid for this car, I think that's a fair swap.
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