You're driving down I-95 towards Miami, and you see lights flashing behind your car... you know, the gut-wrenching red and blue ones. Are you being pulled over? Panic hits! You just had a birthday, and your registration is expired. As you blink your signal and get over into the right lane, the Ford Interceptor speeds past you. Phew... you got lucky! This time, that is...

You can’t help but notice the man in the red Lamborghini, engine roaring and hissing as he races up and down Federal Highway at speeds way faster than the requisite 45 mph. Some people look at him enviously and drool over the prized piece of engineering behind whose wheel he gets to sit, grip, up and downshift. With so many horsepower at his fingertips, he seems unstoppable.

A few decades ago, there was a time in which people rightly assumed that buying used cars would be the worst investment possible, since you would often end up with an unstable vehicle purchased at an unfair price. These days, things are much different since manufacturing standards have ensured long-lasting reliability that extends way beyond a first owner's use.