Now, $20,000 buys you a 6-year-old car with 71,000 miles on it.” The good news is cars are built better so the older used models with higher mileage will last longer, he said.

Contrast this with popular cars from 25 years ago such as the Ford Scorpio. One of the biggest cars on the road in the 1990s, it was nevertheless a full 25cm narrower than, say, the current BMX X5 ...

Two-door cars like the Audi TT and the Mercedes SLK have disappeared. Toyota’s reborn Supra sold fewer than 2,700 cars last year, less than one-tenth of Corvette’s sales.

In February, the average list price for a 1- to 5-year-old used car was $31,257, up 1% from a year ago. In June, it was up to $32,437, a 4.8% bump from a year ago, Brauer said. Of course, that's ...