Its funny, because it almost seems like you guys are stating the arguement for my point, but stepping right over the conclusion.

You don't see many 20 year old econoboxes on the road today because they're econoboxes. I'll bet without searching for any studies or graphs on google that more people take better care of their high end expensive/nice/fast cars than do with their econoboxes. Thats what you get an econobox for, to drive that fucker into the ground and not worry about it. What if you've got a Supra, and the engine blows? Drop a 2-JZ-DRMQ (I don't know all these fucking acronyms you people have somehow memorized, but you get the idea) into it. Say your D16 in your honda blows up, you throw the car away like yesterdays garbage. Who'se to say the Honda wouldn't be running 20 years from now if you kept up on it like you do the Supra? They target a different crowd, those econoboxes, and those differnt crowds beat on their cars differently.

Oh, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but imports were more reliable than domestics up until recently. If anyone wants to debate that I'll go scrounge up some documents and link them.