I'd like to expand on one statement
"All the 5k cars make one and two years, many do not make it to year three."
It should have read, "...many do not make it to three years without some repair work."
If you count something that makes noise, or stops the car from running, the third year of the 5k a year cars is much more active, repair wise, than the first two. At this same mileage in the high mileage cars, it's unusual to see any repair activity. And a note to the Critic, we always have individual cars that are the exception but we get the real bad problems, too. The cars in the category I'm talking about are cars driven by the same driver and number in to the hundreds. With this many care you see just about about anything. Last summer we had a car stolen for a joy ride by two teenagers. We got the car back after a little over a thousand miles in two days and had to replace the tires and brakes (including 2 front calipers, all rotors and pads), front bumper, grill and head lights. We did a major service, fluids and all that, painted the front and as of today there is not one problem, since returning it to service. The snitch device reported sustained speeds over 100mph. This Camry appears to not show any signs of it's vaction with two boys.