answer:“what the hell made people keep buying new cars in 60’s, 70s, 80’s, or shit even the 90s!!!!” Cars didn’t last as long back then. Also, miles were less likely to be low stress freeway miles and more likely to be high stress city miles. Getting 80K miles was considered good. Now, getting 200K miles is easy. Also, back then, electronics weren’t available for consumers. Also, attrition due to wear, accidents, repairs not worth it forced people to buy new cars. People didn’t buy cars because the newest iPod charger became available. Do we have any evidence that supports people buying cars at a higher frequency now than yesterdyear? Also, there were less teenagers driving back then, so families didn’t buy another car and give the hand me down car to junior once he turned 16.