I was a GM buyer - until I bought my first Honda in 1999. It was stil going strong and trouble-free when I traded it in this year for another Honda (which gets in the 30’s for freeway mileage and high 20’s in the city).
I’ve retired all my Hondas (new) and Datsun pickup (used) at 250k miles — except the ‘72 Coupe that was stolen at 170k miles.
We’ve had all kinds of cars in 37 years of marriage, Olds, Chevy, Dodge, Pontiac, some of them good. But the last 3 were lemons and one almost killed us. Someone gave me a free VW Dasher because they were moving. It was a tank. I was rear-ended by a large Chevy truck. It took out his radiator etc and I had a broken taillight. Hubby’s diesel VW has 400,000 miles on it. I won’t buy American again.