Most any car you buy today is light years ahead in durability of cars just 20 years ago. For the most part, the difference between brands now is miniscule. We buy what we like and really haven’t had a big problem with any brand.

We do drive our primary cars 150K-200K miles, so we buy new there. For my toys, I buy used since they are just for fun, I don’t depend on them to get us to work on time, and I need to keep costs down. Plus I tend to trade those off alot…don’t want to keep taking big depreciation hits.