Went from a 2 year old BMW (owned from new) to a 12 year old lexus when I decided to stop having a car finance payment.
The lexus is infinitely better built despite the age.
In my early 20s I bought a VW polo g40. It was only small, looked like a pretty regular polo, but it had a supercharger in it. It was ridiculously fast in a straight line. Braking/cornering was exciting and terrifying