If its been looked after well, hasn't shown any signs of impending doom, and you keep up the maintenance to give it a chance, then my gut feeling would be to keep it until it starts making peculiar expensive sounding noises.

Your model is a nice size, i agree that cars are now getting too big without any appreciable improvement in interior space (my 120 series Landcruiser takes up less space in the car park than many modern cars offering nothing like the interior space or comfort), and your car is now nearing the bottom of its depreciation curve so arguably at its most cost effective time, every year your car might lose £500 at the most, buying newer will see that figure multiplied many fold.

The biggie though, you know everything about your present car, how it was driven, how its been cared for.

Edited by gordonbennet on 19/08/2019 at 14:37

Same position with my '08 Volvo V70 with 128k. does the job and I'm hanging on 'til something expensive does for it. Needs a cam belt soon and could do another128k if I'm lucky.

Thankyou to everyone for your help. As I am still not bored with this car, and the seats are still comfortable on long journeys, I will keep it. Of course that will get reviewed every year come MOT time and any other work that needs doing. An expensive repair would write it off, but until and unless, I'll keep driving it. I might even treat it to a set of winter tyres on steel rims come winter, that might solve the problem of not being able to get it out of the drive when it snows.