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Originally Posted by glatt
Flint, I hope you vanity search this. How's your '08 or '09 Honda treating you these days? I just stumbled across this old thread searching for something.
I've since changed my views, and think used cars are the way to go. New cars are just too expensive, and if you are careful, you can find a decent used car.
Have you kept up with the Honda maintenance? Do you still love it, or have you moved on?
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My 08 Honda drives like a dream, and my
02 Honda still gets the job done.
My next car puchase will probably be another new Honda.
Although...I was given pause to think about this when a guy who worked for me bought a pre-owned Lexus. Here's the deal: a 10-year old Lexus has enough Consumer Reports reviews for you to know that it will go X number of miles with only standard maintenance--if there were any systems that were going to break down within X number of miles, it would have already happened (to the people who put more miles on in a shorter time) and you'd be able to get that information. So I can see that, given a certain model of car, with enough years under its belt (since production) to form historical data; and given that you can find a
low mileage car of that model, you can reasonably predict what the next X number of miles is going to look like.