In places that salt the roads in winter, are all cars doomed to rust out at 10?15?20? years old. I come from a place where rust in cars stopped being an issue in the 1990s. So seeing pics of modern cars rusting to pieces blows my mind.

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In places that salt the roads in winter, are all cars doomed to rust out at 10?15?20? years old. I come from a place where rust in cars stopped being an issue in the 1990s. So seeing pics of modern cars rusting to pieces blows my mind.

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Yes. But things are much better than they used to be. 50 years ago cars rusted out in 2-5 years. Rustproofing is much, much improved.