we own my 2004 mazda 323, paid it off before DD1 was born, refuse to buy another car as long as this one is running! great runabout car!
DH's novated lease through work, we get allocated money as part of his salary to buy and run a car, every year, currently own a Ford GE6 turbo (he's in love with it lol ), we get a new car every 3 or so years, but we only buy what we can afford and we generally dont go over what's allocated so we arnt out of pocket