[speeder]

The perspectives here are interesting and reflect the mentality of many consumers, in fact it’s what drives the economy. To the OP, a 2018 car is getting, “long in the tooth,” whereas to me it’s practically a new car.

Of the cars in my current stable, my number one choice for a cross country drive would be my 1995 Mercedes E300 diesel with 265k miles. It runs like brand new, is as comfortable a car as has ever been made and in its current state of maintenance, I would bet my life that it would go from L.A. to NY and back with nothing but diesel.

I also have a 2022 Chevy Malibu with 36k miles in perfect condition and oddly enough, I’d have slight trepidation about going cross country in it. It’s under powertrain warranty for quite a while so if anything happened, it would be covered but the difference in build quality between it and a w124 MB is night and day. One is built to last one million miles and the other is meant to be disposable in a few years.

I’ve road tripped a LOT and any good car is fine, in the USA it’s mostly interstate driving with the cruise control on anyway. Other than the mountains and the coast, it’s mostly pretty boring. You don’t want to waste a lot of time in the middle. I’ve thought about a MB E63 sedan from about 2014 like the one the cannonball record was set with, it would be exciting to go 170 mph through the boring parts. I’d actually slow way down for the mountains and the pretty stuff like the painted desert in AZ. and the I-70 through Utah, etc.

Other than that, any newish lux car would be more than sufficient.