Like rtimgray we have three older spare vehicles besides our four daily drivers. I joke we have spare cars instead of spare tires.
We live 20 miles from town and the ability to grab another vehicle due to a dead battery, etc is nice.
Our daily drivers are old but ready for a cross country trip if needed. We live in deer country and two of our 7 are carrying signs of deer impacts. I want good dependable vehicles but my ego is not hung up on impressing others. The wife and kids have the least miles and age by a shade and are have very good tires.
If I had more money that I could ever spend I would get me a Nissan Frontier crew cab SL less than 10 years/100K miles old for my daily driver instead of the wife's old 2000 Towncar with 170K miles but the bottom side was rebuilt two years ago. Be care what you buy the wife to drive because it may be your ride some day. I gave $6K for it in 2006 with 70K miles and the kids used it to take their driving test in and was one they learned to drive in so it has been a good vehicle. Last year we took it to Canada on a road sales trip.
Thankfully many people can and do by new vehicles. I do think for those who have $20K-$30K to tie up in a vehicle reaching for NEW could be a worthwhile consideration. At age 64 if I bought new it could still be a very good vehicle when I turned 84. We have two starting to college next year so that is my may concern as well as for the wife. The kids can fend for themselves when they wear out the vehicles we just got of them.
The working man has to have wheels but if he did not have wheels he would not have to work.