7 Cars Their Owners Can’t Wait to Get Rid Of

7 Cars Their Owners Can’t Wait to Get Rid Of

Some of these are surprising...and no Smarts!

Number 1 was actually a shocker! Interesting list...

Number one isn't traded in, it's owners die of old age so that gets counted.

Surprised at the Regal, never heard anything negative from the owners I spoke with.

Really surprised at the Cruze and Charger.

I am shocked that Fiat is not on this list. I know too many people getting rid of it in less than a year.

I think Dodge incentivized trade ins in advance of the Charger redesign with a lease deal where you could lease a 2014 and trade it in on a 2015 even-stevens, might have affected the numbers some.

Not a car on that list that I would want either. I would trade them too in if I ended up with one.

I'll bet the C-class Mercs get traded in every year because that's what the customers do.

I wonder if rental cars are counted? Because that would explain the Cruze and the Charger and possibly the Buick.

My dad has a 06 or 07 Nissan Frontier with like a gazillion miles and he has tried to kill it. Seriously I can't figure out how that truck is still running. But...he LOVES it. I think he may be buried in it.

That's my only experience with anything on the list.

Keith Tanner wrote: I'll bet the C-class Mercs get traded in every year because that's what the customers do. I wonder if rental cars are counted? Because that would explain the Cruze and the Charger and possibly the Buick.

or fleet cars. plenty of places pick up bulk cars, put 40-60k on them in year one, and trade them in on the next fleet.

Keith Tanner wrote: I'll bet the C-class Mercs get traded in every year because that's what the customers do.

That's exactly the big 'Duh' I thought while reading that post. Just because you're turning your car in after a year doesn't mean you hate it. There is a certain type of customer in the market who always wants to be driving a new car, and every year trades in their new or leased car for a newer model. I've known a few of these and their brands of choice were Mercedes and Buick.

First off.. I'll never understand the reason why one would buy a new car off the lot. Second.. I test drove the turbo regal. I thought it was a pile of crap. I drove the turbo optima right before and there was a night and day difference. I'm really surprised that platform has not taken off.

There's plenty of good reason to purchase a new car. The best reason is you're going to run it into the ground. Buy it and get your money's worth. If you're a PM type person and on top of keeping your car in good shape, a new car can last you 15 years. that's 10+ years of no car payments and a dependable car. Buying used, you never know what you're getting (as I've recently learned with the Rio.)

Yep, while I am a little miffed about making a car payment each month it is SO nice to know exactly what's happened to my car over its whole life and know the payoff will come within a couple years.

Unless you're buying from an enthusiast, I'd say 1 in 50 used cars I look at are in as described condition or better, the rest are owned by scumbags or ignorant owners and in need of serious amounts of maintenance or repair.

I'd be curious to see how big of a hit the owners took on each of those models by trading them in within a year. I wonder which one was highest as a percentage of purchase price? My first thought was the Sonic, but maybe not?

Three of my neighbors bought a Cruze, all 3 were traded in in less than a year, they all hated them.

Steering feel is by far the biggest complaint on the Cruze I rented recently. Seemed bad even by GM standards.

chief8one wrote: First off.. I'll never understand the reason why one would buy a new car off the lot. Second.. I test drove the turbo regal. I thought it was a pile of crap. I drove the turbo optima right before and there was a night and day difference. I'm really surprised that platform has not taken off.

If nobody buys new cars off the lot, then there are no used cars for you to buy later.

I've got a 2014 Cruze with 45,000 miles on it I bought new just under a year ago. I don't love it but its not bad by any means. I test drove several other cars in the segment and came back to it based on pric and driving dynamics.

No Versa? Those cars really must turn your brain into mush.

Flight Service wrote: 7 Cars Their Owners Can’t Wait to Get Rid Of Some of these are surprising...and no Smarts!

I have exactly zero Smarts.

Merc owners are typically conditioned to 1) always drive the newest for appearance sake 2) they learned the hard way about the trouble those things give later. So, swapping every year takes care of both problems. By the way, this is nothing new; the 'two year cycle' is well known in the business. Some dealers even set up special two year leases and pushed them hard in TV advertising, called 'drive new every two'. Whatever; I can't see the financial upside of ALWAYS having a damn car payment.

Curmudgeon wrote: I can't see the financial upside of ALWAYS having a damn car payment.

It is the status upside of always driving new. Sheeple go "oooooooooooooooooooooooh"

There is no financial upside to 99% of all new cars, but as said before, we need the sheeple to buy the right ones so we will have the used ones. I think the average life now of a car purchase is 42 months, (see Hyundai isn't so generous with the factory field testing offer, sorry I meant 10 year 100k powertrain warranty to the first owner.) This is up from 38 months. Sheeple eat the big part of the depreciation and we get great cars.

On the other hand, would you own a C-class? Much less a C-class for more than 2 years?

"Sheeple" is a term that always makes me dismiss well-reasoned arguments, as it's the writer putting themselves on a higher moral plane than the rest of the population. Might as well use hoi polloi or proletariat instead. It's been popping up here quite a bit recently.

My grandfather used to buy a new car every couple of years. If memory serves, he went from an Oldsmobile to an 83 V8 Thunderbird to an 85 RX-7 to...I forget...to a used XJ-S. That XJ-S taught him the cost of buying a used Jaaaaaag A lot of them were the first model year. I think some of the reason came from buying cars in the 60's when they started to become less reliable after two years. It was also because he enjoyed always having something different, and he liked the new stuff just coming out.He could afford it, he liked it, it kept the industry running and someone got an RX-7 that had been cared for and was only two years old.

My dad and I didn't pick that up, but I don't judge my grandfather for it. It was always interesting seeing what he'd pick next.

It is going to get to the point where one year leases will be a thing due to the short attention spans of the American buying public.