James Sweet wrote:

Of course domestic cars tend to kinda self destruct around 10 years or
100K miles anyway so as long as you plan on replacing it before then you
probably won't run into big problems with the major systems.


You mean like my Jeep Cherokee, with well over a quarter million miles?



Tend to, not 100% do. A friend of mine has one of those and it seems to
be holding up alright, it's a real bitch to work on under the hood and I
don't like the way it drives (but hey it's a truck afterall) but the
inline 6 seems to be a robust motor and the body and trim has held
together so far.

I know of about 10 Cherokees around here, all with about the same
amount of mileage, and all are still going strong. It does ride and
drive like a truck, for sure. As far as under the hood, it's one of the
simplest to work on that I've seen since cars were huge. Everything is
right there in front of you.... I had to replace the water pump once,
took about an hour.