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To clarify, I was making two independent points and didn’t do a good job of separating them. These being:

1. It frequently makes sense to buy older cars for several reasons (cost, common problems being recognized and understood).

2. I’m not interested in anything after ~2020 or so, not because they aren’t built well, but because they include too many “features” that I refuse to own. Two-way telemetry, that sort of thing.

Sure but if they bought those cars in 2010 and 2019, then there would've been plenty of time for quality issues to show up in those models.

And plenty of time spent in dealerships waiting for recalls or keeping the service record pristine

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