That's an assertion that's not reflected by my experience, albeit my experience is buying old performance/sports cars and then being a little obsessive about their condition.
i.e. it would have cost me less to run a brand new 991 era 911 than my (theoretically) old, cheap 996 era 911.
I'm talking about mass market cars where the resale value heads towards zero regardless of condition due to over supply. It makes the economics of paying for maintenance rather irrational.
That's an assertion that's not reflected by my experience, albeit my experience is buying old performance/sports cars and then being a little obsessive about their condition.
i.e. it would have cost me less to run a brand new 991 era 911 than my (theoretically) old, cheap 996 era 911.