Oh I always buy cars of 10+ years old and keep them until they become too expensive to maintain.

One of them blew a transmission which was the end of that obviously. Another one had an ECU error but drove normally so I kept it until I left the country anyway.

But a cat never failed on my and then I'd just switch to another car anyway. But I've never spent more than 2200 on a car anyway :) The last one was not bad though, full leather heated seats, automatic everything etc. Really nice condition too, it's just that big cars are really unpopular and thus expensive here due to the road tax.

But these days I just don't even bother with a car anymore.