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One of the reasons I've had so many cars was that I always bought cheap old clunkers.
If they broke and the repair was too expensive, buy something else (the other reason was I just wanted a change).
More often than not, I changed the older cars not because they broke, but because I wanted something else.
It's only really been these last 3-4 years I've paid high four-figures for a car.
The 2010 300C I have now is a nice car but do I REALLY need a car that tips the mirrors down when I put it in reverse?
There has got to be something said for a car that can be fixed on the side of the road where you only need a screwdriver, some tape and a hammer !

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I bought my first car in 1969 when I was 16. It was a 1961 Corvair 4 door with a two speed automatic. I paid fifty dollars for it. Over the next 3 years I bought three more cars, each for fifty dollars. I also sold each of them for fifty dollars, except for the Corvair, my mother took that one. Tires getting bald? Get another car! Funny noise from the engine? Get another car. I must admit I learned a lot about cars screwing with the fifty dollar variety. After all, when the worst you do is turn a running fifty dollar heap into a $25 salvage yard special, working on them yourself makes a lot more sense.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.