I think they did up until the 1970s. Cars up to that point were fairly solid. You almost never see cars from the 1980s on that is older than 8 years old. A few cars like 90s Ford Tauras and Crown Vic but those were built to be bulletproof for the most part. 1980 is when Toyotas and Hondas started hitting the market and could comply with CAFE standards easily. The 1980s is also when deregulation happened across all industries and allowed the culture of "fuck you, we're the only game in town" viewpoint toward the customers until the dot coms came along and then lawfare started when startups like vonage showed up to fuck with AT&T, for example. Now it's consolidation and DIE policies. If customers had real choices DIE wouldn't exist and products wouldn't be built with planned obsolescence in mind.