One other thing- as the article points out, every car on the 'best ten' list was manufactured by Honda or Toyota. I know a lot of people here have very strong brand name feeling, and I'm often taken aback by the strength of the generalizations that people make about a vehicle based on brand alone, though I know that in many cases there is history that may warrant certain assumptions. Still, vehicle lifetime seems like one of those statistics that can be pretty exactly calculated, has little fudge factor, and may be as close to a purely fair comparison of quality between brands as you can get. My Honda is statistically likely to last a long, long time. And that makes me happy!