While tripping merrily through the mail, Peg Dietrich was overheard
 PD> Hubby asked me to ask you people for some advice.  He is the proud
 PD> owner of a 1991 Mercury Capri.  It's pushing 100,000 miles, at least
 PD> 40,000 are highway miles.  (He communites 100+ miles round trip daily.)
 PD> He takes care of the car, changes the oil regularly, does all the
 PD> things he's supposed to do.  Now for the question:  Under normal
 PD> conditions, how long (how many miles) should this car last?  He's
 PD> trying to decide whether to sell it this summer or will it last another
 PD> year.  (He believes in driving a car until 3 minutes before it totally
 PD> dies for the last time!) 
 PD> Thanks for any advice/encouragement you can give him!
I'm driving an '83 Buick Skylark with 160,000 miles on it!
My personal opinion would be to keep it as long as it runs well and 
verything
works.  Continue with routine maintainance, normal repairs (brakes, exhaust,
tune-ups etc.).  At 100,000 miles, I would say anything that comes up that's
less than three or four hundred dollars, keep going.  If you get something
major (i.e. transmission failure), scrap it and walk away, you've gotten
your money's worth out of it.
Don
... I may be lost but I'm making good time!
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