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The wrong assumption is that you have to pick the best of all possible everything the first time. People agonize less about choosing a type of car to spend $30,000 on knowing that if you sell it used its instantly worth 5000 less.
Meanwhile you can switch everything about your computer in 2 hours for free.
Instant depreciation of a new car is worth it with the knowledge of newness with warranty. Buying used is a huge gamble. But yeah, I mostly agree that we need to encourage people like how I was encouraged: oh yeah just try it out!
What's up in North America? Like seriously?
I keep driving depreciated old shitboxes, literally the German makes and models known for being the absolute worst offenders when it comes to destroying your wallet. Yet even with one bought at 400k km, one at 500k km and one with 380k km on the clock but electronic modules showing 600k km... None have yet catastrophically failed. BTW 400k km was Audi, 500k km was BMW and the one with 380k km that almost certainly had the odometer rewound when it made a stop in Lithuania before being imported to Estonia, was a Mercedes-Benz. All mid-00s models, the era where they were known to be the LEAST reliable of all the eras of these cars. Okay the BMW ended up having major issues, but it was the only one - and that's because it's the only one of those super high-mileage shitboxes that I owned when I was together with my ex, the car destroyer. She never let me bleed the cooling system after replacing the radiator (which I don't consider a catastrophic failure, it was a slow leak and a 3-4 hour DIY job to replace). The moment the cooling system SEEMED to work after the radiator replacement, she needed to drive again, and of course any time I got home from work, she took the car and left. Hence never finding an hour or so to bleed the system.
But that rant aside - I do get wanting peace of mind! It's why I drove a 2019 till my ex put me in so much debt I had to go back to the shitboxes. Get low mileage cars at 2 or 3 years, ideally certified pre-owned so you get an extended warranty from the dealer. I got a 50-60k EUR Mercedes for under 30k that way. Not a single fault in the 2 years I drove it, despite the serious neglect it incurred when I got together my ex and she instantly got pregnant and had me spend all of my money on useless shit and drive her to places at a rate of like 300-400 km per day. 60k km between oil changes at one point because I couldn't afford the minuscule expense, nor could I find the hour it takes to do it.
Or less even, the DE login has the DE switcher option, you can try GNOME for an hour, logout and choose KDE, logout and try Cinammon, logout and try ICEWM wtf imnediatly logout