My 1987 Toyota Van Wagon has over 345,000 miles and the engine hasn't been touched yet.
I purchased a Nissan Pathfinder in 1992, drove it to 160K, never did a thing to it, swapped to my brother-in-law for a ratty old pick-up I needed to do some hauling. The Pathfinder is still running and over 250K. Brakes and a timing belt are all the maintenance it ever had.
I bought a 2002 GMC Envoy and it's a piece of crap. The coating on the radio knobs wore off in about 2 months. They replaced the radio and the new coatings wore off in the same amount of time. They said "we'll replace it every time". That's what's wrong with US-designed cars, they think you want to visit them to have things fixed. Japenese-designed cars don't need fixin'. The Envoy also has multiple pieces of lose wind-seal rubber that I push back on every day or so, a poorly fit rear door, and a bad ride. It sits cock-eyed and has since I bought it. No dealer has been able to fix this, claiming it's made that way, driver-side bias one fool claimed. It's the last US-designed car I'll ever buy.
Instead, I can buy a Japanese-designed, US-built car from Honda, Toyota or Nissan, from a plant with highly skilled, well-paid US citizens as employees. I can also purchase stock in these companies, as any Japanese can purchase stock in GM/Ford. It is not patriotic to support inefficient, poorly run US auto companies when the Japanese companies will soon employ more Americans than they do. Capital should reward value and quality, not complacency and laziness. Read the WSJ article about the auto industry job bank if you want a taste of how foolish these companies are. If you like the product, fine, but nobody should claim that buying an American lemon is something that's good for the country.