100k and still running
I wasn’t sure I’d have a car last this long, but my 1997 saturn has now gone over the 100k mark. It’s looking old, but never has any problems. That and the fact that it gets pretty good gas mileage (manual transmission) means it’s a very cheap car to operate. So sexy new cars be damned, I plan to keep driving this around for a while.
Please note that I’m not claiming this is the greatest car or anything. I have one other car, a 2004 Volvo s60 and it is so much more comfortable and nicer to drive on any trip of length. But the cost of ownership will be much higher by the time it reaches 100,000 miles if I keep it that long.
Website builders would do well to keep this in mind too. Build your sites to last. That’s not to say don’t use the hot new stuff, just go to great lengths to strictly adhere to web standards. Functional websites usually persist longer than people expect them to. I’m referring to intranet tools, web-based applications, functional public websites, etc.