I'd say it's built like a brick *****house actually. Ours has not been as reliable as a Toyota (is supposed to be; I've never had one), but it's really not been a money pit either. It needs some maintenance now and then, but at 185,000 miles it still drives the same as the day we bought it. Granted we bought it two years old with 60K on it, but still.

So far I have been able to do all my own work.

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Lenny

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. --Ernest Hemingway

'10 GL550/'04 BMW 545/'99 BMW 323/'98 ML320/'87 VW GTI (race)