JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

For used vehicles, I think reliable is defined not so much by the
vehicle as by the kind of mechanic who works on your cars. If you get
your work done by the dealer, nobody important is familiar with the
history of your car. The service writer is a salesman, so he's not
important to you. You have no relationship with the mechanic.

Hmm. I get my truck worked on by the dealership. Their computer keeps track
of every smidgen ("Replaced door weather-stripping"). This accomodates both
porus memories and porus borders.