Your most reliable car ever

85 marquis ls. it went everywear with very little maintnence and alot of smokey burnouts. survived my addiction years with just body and interior damage. best 100 bucks i have ever spent on a car

'85 CRX SI. I bought it new, autocrossed it for several years and had it for 160K miles, no issues. (Lots & lots of tires however!) Then I sold it to a pizza delivery guy. I talked with him a few years ago. He still owns it & has never done anything major to it at over 300K miles. He did say he cracked the radiator at about 250K but he figures that's because he drove it so fact on gravel roads, they're still fairly common around here, while delivering pizzas.

After he replaced the radiator, he got his degree and retired it from pizza work. But I couldn't talk him into selling it back to me. Wish I'd never sold it!

my is300 has been a tank. So has my 89 toyota hilux 4x4.

Cole_Trickle wrote: 2000 Dodge Dakota 3.9 Sport. It went 11 years and only needed a battery and tires.

Must be a manual right?

I would have said my 1989 escort, but I crushed it because of a blown trans. The winner is my 1995 ford Taurus. I bought it for 100 bucks. It was unstopptable, unkillable, and had the best ac on earth. I genuinely miss that car.

1986 SAAB 900 four door.

No sunroof, no turbo, 5speed. The trunk would eat an entire hot water heater, ran no matter what I asked it to do, steelies & snows and I could get to places 4X4s would hesitate.

Bought it new, sold it with over 200,000.

If I found another one ......

carbon wrote: my is300 has been a tank.

Good to hear, I might be looking to pick one up this fall. I take it the rest of the car has been as reliable as the legendary power plant?

bgkast wrote: Probably my RX8. Shocking, I know.

In 16 years of driving RX-7s, I have been stranded once. That was earlier this year when a loose battery connection let the smoke out of my Megasquirt.

I put 53k on the first one, 80k on the second one, and almost 100k on the current one.

My Golf gets "best individual car" prize. Something like 80-90k on a Digifant controlled '89 with no foulups other than a lift pump that died (keep tank over half full until I could fix it - at my leisure) and an annoying appetite for A/C belts because of the goofy belt routing that they used. Then I switched to Conti belts and no more problems. Had it from about 150k or so to about 230k or so. Sold it when I found an AWD car and had to give something up.

Well, there was the time I exploded a halfshaft at a rallycross. That is pure driver error - only idiots and fools apply full power at full lock in a Golf.

ShadowSix wrote:

carbon wrote: my is300 has been a tank.

Good to hear, I might be looking to pick one up this fall. I take it the rest of the car has been as reliable as the legendary power plant?

tires, clutch (supra clutch flywheel and slave 5k ago), timing belt and brakes 185k of what any normal (or otherwise) person would consider severe abuse (sideways everywhere, driven very hard everyday, trackdays, etc.) Bulletproof. Wish it had memory seats, v160, and a turbo, it'd be perfect.

My Saturn SC2 had 200k when I sold it a couple months ago. Nothing but standard maintence stuff. Just saw it on the road yesterday.

Had several S-10's w/ 2.8 V6's close to 200k as well. Good little trucks.

I had 2 different rangers go to 250k with the 2.3 4 cylinder. My father had an early 90's Lincoln Town Car with the 4.6 go to 350k with only an 15 minute alternetor change in its lifetime. I'm pretty sure the Lincoln is still running too.

'85 RX-7 GS vs '89 Mazda Miata Got rid of the RX-7 simply because I had too many other cars that were more interesting. The Miata started to have wiring issues in the dash after 212k miles but it was still running the last time I saw it 2yrs ago.

1993 Nissan truck. Manual windows, manual locks, manual shift, 2wd, etc. I think the only options were AC and cruise. So basically nothing to go wrong.

bwh998 wrote: My father had an early 90's Lincoln Town Car with the 4.6 go to 350k with only an 15 minute alternetor change in its lifetime. I'm pretty sure the Lincoln is still running too.

My best friend bought a cleeeean '94 Town Car right after we graduated high school, think it had 80k on it. He proceeded to put another 120k on it over the next few years, then gave it to his parents who have put ~100k on it themselves. It's needed an alternator and the air springs died, but aside from that it's been a complete tank.

1993 Dodge Dakota (first new car). Nothing but regular maintenance in its 8 or 9 year stay with me.

2003 Mazda MPV (second new car). 150k miles and climbing. Other than maintenance items, a water pump, a few coils, a pcv hose, a fan relay, front motor mount, and a MAF sensor have been replaced. The transmission is starting to act up but I blame towing the Golf for premature wear.

2005 Honda Accord. Just spent $400 on a "100,000" mile tune up. First major money (other than tires) spent in 7 years of ownership.