This may be mundane, but as a life-long professional student (BSc MSc PhD MD)there were cheap cars kept for long times:


1. 1981 Mazda GLC (red)


2. 1989 Nissan pickup (red)


3. 2000 Mazda Protege (again, red)


After med school and a little bit of high volume work:


4. 2001 Land Rover Discovery II (green, for a change) - now doing it's best to die before 100,000 km


5. Wife's 2002 Land Rover Freelander (black)


6. 2006 Cayman S on order!!!!! (guess what colour - RED of course!! Red belts, red dials)


Bruce