I have always felt that at about 200k miles on an average honda or toyota. The requirements for more parts and decreasing reliability are going to raise their heads.

A car on constant highway use may be a lot better and go a lot further before this occurs though. Eighty percent of our cars usage is spent very locally. All these very short trips are hard on them.

What may suprise some is many components that are maintenance items in other cars are lifetime components in honda. This suprised me and does factor into more value and less service bills.

Resulting in more money in your pocket over the long haul in my opinion. Especially with the greater retained resale value. Really people should think about these things before deciding what to purchase.

No I do not and never have owned a honda but some members of my family do and I have watched. I suspect we are going to try one.

Locally hyundai are grabbing a large segment of the market. I have worked on a few mid two thousand models. Not really all that impressed with the lack of attention to detail in the engineering and execution in many areas.