Originally Posted by SMOKEY53

I think OP got sick of the inconvenience of an unreliable car, which for some people, can't be quantified in maintenance dollars alone.

For example, if you rely on your car to get you to business meetings or to drive clients around in and it lets you down, makes you miss the meeting or leaves you and your clients stranded on the side of a road, well that's a risk for potentially high opportunity cost - not only do you have to pay to fix the car, you may also lose the business you would have won had you not been let down by an unreliable car.

I can appreciate wanting to get into something newer if that were the case.