I' never said new cars are perfect, infact I showed above examples where they aren't lol... 
Infact the best most relaible cars are big petrol engines if you have the money for petrol - no turbos, no DMFs, the only expensive things on those are the injectors which are made MUCH better than the older ones these days. How many issues do you think my Dads had with his 150k 2001 Mondeo V6 Ghia X....yup, none, except a tyre with a screw in it that couldve happened to any car. Yet he's had several older cheap pov spec mondeos on ridiculous milage that he's just scrapped - he eventually learnt that buying £400 cars and having to scrap them after a few months was wasting more money than just buying a nicer, newer one to start with.
And why on earth would I buy another Golf lol? Nah, its something without VAG tax this time. Also a PD130 cambelt doesn't cost much, about £300, the one on the silver golf was done just before I got it, and tbh a '6 belt probably costs more in labour. I'm not sure where you seem to get the idea from that newer cars costs so much to fix. Yes a brand new car does, and yes a top end car like a Saab does........but your average family salloon/hatch even at ~05 plate really doesn't cost much more in eqivalent parts than a 306. Labour often takes less time as well do to parts not being seized and due to not breaking extra old parts (caliper nipples for a start). Essentially, a belt is still a belt, a cable is still a cable, pads and discs are the same. A clutch even costs the same, its only when you have to change a DMF or a VNT turbo that newer things cost more, but thats not equiavlent to a 306 anyway.
Infact the best most relaible cars are big petrol engines if you have the money for petrol - no turbos, no DMFs, the only expensive things on those are the injectors which are made MUCH better than the older ones these days. How many issues do you think my Dads had with his 150k 2001 Mondeo V6 Ghia X....yup, none, except a tyre with a screw in it that couldve happened to any car. Yet he's had several older cheap pov spec mondeos on ridiculous milage that he's just scrapped - he eventually learnt that buying £400 cars and having to scrap them after a few months was wasting more money than just buying a nicer, newer one to start with.
And why on earth would I buy another Golf lol? Nah, its something without VAG tax this time. Also a PD130 cambelt doesn't cost much, about £300, the one on the silver golf was done just before I got it, and tbh a '6 belt probably costs more in labour. I'm not sure where you seem to get the idea from that newer cars costs so much to fix. Yes a brand new car does, and yes a top end car like a Saab does........but your average family salloon/hatch even at ~05 plate really doesn't cost much more in eqivalent parts than a 306. Labour often takes less time as well do to parts not being seized and due to not breaking extra old parts (caliper nipples for a start). Essentially, a belt is still a belt, a cable is still a cable, pads and discs are the same. A clutch even costs the same, its only when you have to change a DMF or a VNT turbo that newer things cost more, but thats not equiavlent to a 306 anyway.