Let's go down the list, shall we?
Car #1:

2002 dodge neon. Cost me around $2000. Bought on April 29th of 2016. Left me around 8 months later, due to an unfortunate drug related car accident involving two others. No one was hurt, thankfully. She was a pile, but she was my first pile, and I will forever have a love of yellow cars because of her.

Car #2:

2007 Kia Optima. ~$4500. Bought January of 2017. Left me about 7 months later due to a unfortunate drifting accident in a parking lot, where I hopped a curb and in the process bent the frame. I installed RGB LEDs in the interior that would pulse and change colors to the music, as well as a subwoofer in the trunk.

Car #3:

1992 Nissan Pathfinder. $1200. Bought in August of 2017. Left me 3 months later due to the transmission blowing out after two days of off road mountaineering. Me and my girlfriend had our first date in that car. It had a horrible exhaust leak so that thing was loud as hell. I installed a power outlet in the trunk of it and ran a Bose home theater speaker system in the car for the sound system. It was amazing.
Here she is being towed off to the scrapyard:


Car #4:

1997 Honda Accord. $1200. Bought November 27th, 2018. Left me in January of this year due to an unfortunate collision with a Subaru due to wet, rainy roads and my need for speed. No one was hurt either in that accident. I sanded the hood down to bare metal and repainted it using chalkboard paint, effectively making the hood in to a chalkboard, and I would leave chalk out whenever I went places. There were lots of crude drawings drawn. I also installed an underbody LED kit on it, giving it a nice underglow when on.
Here she is post-accident:


Car #5:

2001 Volvo V70. $900. Bought early February this year. Turbocharged. Still going strong. I've put almost 15,000 miles on it since she became mine, it's at around 235,000 miles right now. I put a new radiator in it the week after I bought it, beause it was dumping coolant, as well as polished her up nice and shiny, and she's served me well so far.

Car #6:

2000 Lincoln Continental. $200. Bought her yesterday for $200 due to the brakes needing an overhaul and some other assorted maintenance. I'm guessing it'll cost me about $150 to completely replace the brake system at the wheels, and about $100 more to repair the rest of the issues, then I can sell her for about $1700.

So that's my car history in the slightly less than two years since I've had a license. They've all served me well

Assuming that you were not lying in this topic you were born on December 28, 1997. There are 6698 days between December 28, 1997 and April 28, 2016, inclusive. There are 738 days between April 29, 2016 and today, i.e. May 6, 2018, also inclusive. During that period of time, 6 cars have been in Jory's possession, meaning that he goes through 0.00813 cars per day on average. As of 2015, the average lifespan of the American male is 78.74 years, which, when rounded to the nearest integer, corresponds to 28760 days. This means that, by the end of Jory's lifespan, 22062 days will have passed since he obtained his first car, including the first day. If Jory continues to go through cars at the same rate, then he will have owned 179.36 cars in his lifetime. When rounding up to the nearest integer, that is a total of 180 cars.

eta: The average cost of each car is $1667, so Jory will have spent ~$300,000 on cars in his lifetime
eta: For the pedants of the interguild, average refers to the arithmetic mean in every case with the possible exception of the life expectancy which I'm not sure about and can't be bothered to find out. I feel like it is PROBABLY the mean though.

I have a mom-owned car, a 2005 aveo Chevrolet. It sucks so bad. But it gets me to work..

Although I can drive, I have never owned a car. When living in London, and the UK in general, the public transport is more than you need to get just about anywhere.

I find the total difference in mindset in the US fascinating. Given the big distances you need to travel, the lack of public transport, and the big car culture, owning a car seems to be the norm. It makes sense. I'm not sure how old you are, Jorster, but to have gone through six cars already kind of blows my mind. I admire your enthusiasm for them.

I have an ambition to never drive again. I've always felt that humans, being the unpredictable and emotional animals that they are, having control of fast-moving metal boxes is generally a bad idea. When autonomous cars have become more mainstream, I may move away from public transport towards having my own car. Though there may come a day where an autonomous taxi network is the public transport.

The thing about public transport in the us, is most of the time it's utter crap unless you live in the main city. Any suburbs, or anything of the like and it's a 2 hour bus-ride with 2 or 3 transfers to get anywhere. Trains that go anywhere except the airport aren't even a thing in Seattle as far as I'm aware

I'm a mechanic, cars are my job, but I also love cars. I love the mechanics of them, I love how so many different systems can work together to create movement and I love seeing the limits of those systems be pushed beyond comprehension. I love working on cars, I love fixing cars, I love upgrading cars. I especially love driving cars, that freedom you get and that feeling of being alone with the road.  

Can confirm, the public transportation in the US is abysmal unless you're in a big city. Basically, the US is entirely built around cars except in cities that can't fit all the cars in them anymore. I'm currently in Des Moines, the capitol of Iowa, and it has almost no public transportation despite having 650,000 people in the metro. Instead, we have this:


(The public transportation that we have is buses, there aren't any trains or anything like that. And the bus stops are fairly limited)
(Also, that interstate is 4 lanes wide each way near downtown, and is primarily for local traffic. Traffic passing through has an entirely different interstate that skirts around the edge of the metro)

Public transportation in Israel is really bad-to-nonexistent level. But good news is we are a very small country, and you can drive everywhere in two hours from anywhere but one town.

So cars are it mostly...but they are expensive, so we normally do not switch them unless they die..

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Sweet!! I don't think I've even seen one in real life. Jealous.

Why is this exciting?
Sorry for being the stupid one

It is the car from Back To The Future.

Also they're fairly rare as they're from the early 80s and in fairly high demand

The whole body is also made of stainless steel, which is quite cool

Was the Delorean a high-end car in the 80s or was it relatively common then? I know a lot of cars that used to be common are extremely rare and valuable now just because of age.

EDIT: These days I can't find a pizza pan made out of stainless steel, let alone a car. Apparently it costs 5x as much as regular steel (because of that sweet, sweet chromium) so they just put crappy "scratch resistant" (my posterior) non-stick coatings on regular steel and expect you to buy a new one every few months. So I replaced my pizza pan with a flat rock instead.

There were only about 9000 ever made, so not common at all. There's only about 7500 of them left iirc

So more than 3/4 of them that were made still exist? That's impressive, actually. I'm pretty sure most types of cars that age have much lower rates of survival.

Actually according to Wikipedia "In 2007, about 6,500 DeLorean Motor cars were thought to still exist." but that's still an impressively high survival rate. I guess they kinda became instant classics with their unique appearance and the way the company tanked shortly after they were released.