I hear what you're saying Ferm, I had the 99 burb in to have the front end aligned, the tech came in and told me it had some slop in the steering box(nothing wrong with the box, just his alignment, but that's another story)=, I made the comment that with over 200K on it, it deserved to have a little slop. They was a lady standing there that commented, wow, i has over 200,000 miles, what kind of car is that? I told her it was a Chevy. She commented that she didn't think American cars would last that long. She had her Lexus in for over $1000 in maintenance. I told her the burb was just getting broken in good, I expected at least another 100K out of it, then I told her my van has 340K on it, she couldn't believe it. The majority of the American buying public has been brainwashed into thinking you have to have a foreign car to have a good car. There are good and bad cars from all manufactures. A good friend of mine is a service manager at a Honda dealership, I asked him if the cars were really that good. He said the difference is, most Honda owners do what the manual says to do, if it says you need to spend what ever on the front end at what ever mileage, they tend to do it, if the manual says you need to have the dealer change your oil at what ever millage, they carry the car to the dealer to have it done. That dealer ship does a lot of oil changes, tune ups and brake jobs, most people who own domestic cars either do the work them selves or take it to the quick lube on the corner. The fact that a factory trained tech looks over those cars at the dealer ship goes a long way towards preventative maintenance. If you start out with a solid car and take care of it, regardless of what brand it is, you should get good use out of it
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