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The average vehicle in the US is now a record 11 5 years, according to the consulting firm IHS Automotive, a sign of the increased reliability of today's vehicles and the lingering impact of the sharp drop in new car sales during the recession.
The drivers behind the wheel of the older cars aren t enjoy some of the latest safety features systems or advanced infotainment that transform effectively cars in cell phones on wheels Again, they do not have to worry about hackers find their way into the computer network of the car cassette or CD player.
IHS said the U-enrollment reached a record 257 million 9 cars and trucks this year, up 2 percent from a year earlier.
The average age of vehicles has increased steadily since IHS began tracking the number in 2002 as quality and reliability are improved, people kept their cars and trucks longer average length of vehicle ownership nine is now nearly 6 five years, IHS said a used vehicle, it is five years.
Cars and trucks now have the same average age, said Mark Seng, IHS Automotive global practice leader aftermarket for many years, the cars were shorter than trucks lifetimes, but their quality has now caught.
Experts say there's no rule for how long to keep an old car or truck A car with a good reliability can go for 200,000 miles or more, which can easily last ten years for some motorists, said Doug Love, spokesman for Consumer Reports.
The magazine doesn t recommend driving older cars without two key safety features in place more than one electronic stability control there ten years ago and side curtain air bags.
The aging car population could mean that Americans will be slow to adapt security and the semi-autonomous features that executives of the car company and experts herald a new era of automotive adaptive cruise control came on the market US in 2006, for example, but nine years later, only 6 percent of all the cars, according to a recent report by the Boston Consulting Group will also require more for much hype advances as carplay †giving access to state their applications through the dashboard †become commonplace.
But Seng said that the auto industry must take heart Although the average age of vehicles is showing no signs of decline, it begins to plateau, as buyers returned to the car market in large numbers of new car sales increased 12 7 million in 2011-16 5 million last year and should reach or exceed 17 million this year IHS think the average age of vehicles reach 11 6 years in 2016 but won t climb to 11 7, until 'in 2018.
Seng says that's a more normal rate that the industry has seen in the years after the age of recession vehicle increased rapidly between 2008 and 2013, as more people keep older cars In 2008, the average age cars and trucks in the US was 10 years; by 2013, it was 11 to 4 years, or 14 percent higher.
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