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I drive a 10yo hatchback and I had to do the brakes this year. It's the most expensive repair I've done to date and, regretrably, I don't have access to a shop where I could do it myself.
It was still cheaper than a year of car payments; if I'd said "screw it, I'll get a new car that doesn't need repairs" I'd be paying just as much with no guarantee.
I also like buying cars at around 5 years old because you can see if there are any factory defects by that point. I know plenty of people who bought brand new and have had recurring problems the entire life of their car because that specific vehicle had a defect. Eventually, the wareantee runs out and you're paying for it.
As for crash safety I'm convinced that all the complexity and the touch screens is what fails in most modern cars, causing accidents to get worse than they have to be, or even cause the accident in the first place. When you're the driver and have to operate a ton of controls at all time, you're forced to pay attention to the road, but in a modern car with adaptive cruise control and lane assist it's easy to fall asleep behind the wheel as the car requires no input for several minutes.
Then bang, you... or rather the car crash into a barrier as the lane ended and the lane assist didn't know what to do.
No screens, thank God. The cheaper you go, the less likely you are to have BS like backup cameras and lane assist.