Is It a Smart Guy to Buy a New Car?

When automatic transmissions were main strend, folks started a trading in their automatic transmission cars when they hit about 30 thousand miles. And it was literally cheaper to just buy a new car an to start having to continually fix your transmission. So he clearly made a calculation. I mean, is smart guy a i just, i don't know, i would love to hear from someone else who's blown up a car in a healthy situation.