[MikelTackNailer]

I researched to find a used car that had a great record for durability without technology or schemes making problems irreparable. 26-year old Toyota Camry, full package but everything still works. Only 21 mpg but that's a trade-off I can live with, as I rarely go anywhere.

I HATED buying non-American but what can you do after generations of planned obsolescence?

[HYPOCRACY]

My parents always swore by Camrys.

[FreedomPoster]

That Camry may have been assembled in Kentucky. Many are / were.

[takebackaustin]

Good luck! I may have experience that might warn you about something I didn’t know to keep it going longer…

Great experiences with Toyota/Lexus, have only been able to run one of five to death or loss of confidence it will be reliable and safe — but it was a 2000 Camry Ibought my daughter, so that would be like yours ~ 26 yo now. We got it with less than 50,000 odometer in 2008-2010, got a lot of good use out of it, but at just shy of only 200,000 miles (2015) it died on the highway due to a head gasket leak that destroyed the engine. Then I learned that 5s-FE 2.2L engine has a design flaw, mismatched metals head / block / Head bolts , heat / cool /heat /cool stretch the head bolts back and forth until they/one stretched too much or fails catastrpphically It totalled the car since replacing engine would be way more than car was worth. So you might want to precautionarily replace head bolts / gasket at 175k.

Got her a 2015 new (they didn’t have that issue ) new and it has been good. Got other daughter a lightly used 2018 and it is too low off the ground but otherwise ok.

[eastexsteve]

I HATED buying non-American but what can you do after generations of planned obsolescence?

I worked as a GM and Chrysler service tech back in the 80's. There was plenty of planned obsolescence back then.