You revealed that you've personally owned around or over 20 vehicles. Not sure how old you are, but regardless - this means you're regularly changing your car. That's way beyond the norm. It points to never been satisfied and/or wanting the latest model.
But this has nothing to do with the subject we are discussing. People buying used will generally buy one from the last decade. They aren't buying something from the 80s or 90s. If you buy a brand new vehicle you aren't necessarily getting a better one. It might well be inferior in terms of reliability or build quality. Of course, there's a whole range of permutations. But thinking a new model of a vehicle is offering significant improvements that ends up benefiting the customer isn't correct
Once again, you struggle to grasp some pretty basic fundamentals. You can get very similar quality pairs of shoes that might be priced very different. This is due to branding and marketing. A £50 pair might be almost exactly the same as a £150 pair, produced in the same or similar factory to comparable standards. This happens with lots of things. You're trying to frame this as buying the lowest quality versus the best quality. But this EV discussion isn't about that. In any case, I reckon there will be many lower priced goods that can at least match their more expensive counterparts. That's just a basic life lesson that most begin to realise once they reach adulthood and start living in the real world. I don't eat beans, but if a lower cost product was just as good or close to something much more expensive, of course I'd go for it.
This is a nothing statement. Everything has faults. It's a bit like saying every football team will win, lose and draw. Certain brands and types of vehicles have a much higher than average problem rate. Some much less than average. Knowing what is what is even more important if you're planning on keeping a vehicle for a lengthy period. In all cases, the more complexity and unproven technology involved, the greater potential of things going wrong.
I've got 3 cars at a time personally, and maybe 5-10 other vehicles through the company at any one time, doesn't take long to rack the numbers up. Someone may just have one car, for 3 years, over 30 years that's 10 cars.
I've got a budget TCO, I'm happy to pay, and this budget has gone up and up over the years and additional to this if I buy wisely I can change more often. I change more than most, probably because my budget has gone up and circumstances/ requirements change more than most.
I've been pretty satisfied with every car I've owned, just like I was satisfied with a phone from 15 years ago, or internet speed from 10 years ago etc. You can live your life in the past if you like, your choice. If there's better around for similar cost, then I'll do that.
How many EV's have you owned?
If you're happy with a 10 year old car, then why not 20 or 30 years old? They do the same thing, right? You could pick one up for 1k, rather than the 10k you might spend.
But for balance, I've I've just above compared two 2020 cars, the EV worked out far cheaper, and is clearly better and higher spec. I notice that nobody took apart the spec comparison or numbers in any way, probably as the numbers were largely correct and people don't have the EV experience to work it out, which is understandable.
New cars of similar class (on average) will be better than old cars, it's a fact, it's effectively evolution. There's a lot more that can go wrong in an ICE, and like we've mentioned the EV warranties are far superior anyway. The manufacturers wouldn't put good warranties on them, if they thought otherwise, and they know more than you or me. They know where the market is, and where it is going, and I agree with them.
I wasn't talking about £50-£150, I was talking about £10-50, which is why I mentioned £10-50. There would be a lesser quality difference in a £50-150 pair, which is why I didn't mention that. The same reason why I wouldn't advise many people to spend 100k on an EV, if they have a budget of £300 a month TCO. Some might earn double, or triple, for them they could look at the higher price ranges. They're getting less value, through the law of diminishing returns, but if they've got the money, then why not. They're still probably saving half their wage each month. I wouldn't be advising anyone to blow a massive chunk of their wages on a car.
Like I keep saying, you can't control peoples budgets, values or preferences, which is what you seem to want to do.
All I'm doing is offering opinion and calculations, for typical TCO budget ranges, for
newer cars, as there's much more EV choice now. This will filter down, but hasn't filtered down yet, to all ages and budgets, which is why I've not done comparisons for 10 year old cars. In 8-10 years I might do that. I won't need to mind, as the world will have woken up by then.
If you want an older car, have a lower budget, and only change your car every 5-10 years, then great, stick with what is best for you and your requirement's. There's millions of others in the same boat as you, but not everyone is. Almost anyone could get in your boat, and buy an older car with a lower budget than they currently spend, most don't as they will choose a budget and return which suits them and their finances and requirements, which they're entitled to do.
It seems like you've not ever had a fault on your 5-10 year old cars, outside of warranties, you're in the minority there.
Electric motors and batteries have been in use longer than cars or combustion engines have, but regardless, they're covered by longer warranties also.