My Hondas have been very dependable.
“My Hondas have been very dependable.”
Actually Honda has always been above average in dependability and uncomplicated design. Japanese Toyota, Honda, Datsun/Nissan have always been top notch in simplicity and dependability.
Here is an interesting factoid for you. The old Toyota land cruiser 4x4 rigs had a Chevy 235 inline 6 casted engine but was bored and threaded to metric standards. You can take a Chevy 6 and it will bolt right up in those.
And of course the Chevy inline 6 was one of the most dependable engines still built to date. The others were the Ford 300 inline, and the old AMC inline that eventually evolved into the Studebaker and then into the Jeep 4.0 up until 2002 I think.
In the 50s and 60s the Japanese kind of reverse engineered our stuff.