My daily driver is a Saturn. It's just like the 'Japanese' vehicles
except...it's made in Tennessee and they are built in Ohio or Kentucky.
It doesn't burn any oil, it starts reliably, if the experience of a
half generation of Saturn owners is a guide it will run two hundred
thousand miles with only some CV joints, brake rotors and pads and a
heater core or something. But then it's done for. It will go to the
crusher intact.

I see a lot more twenty, thirty, forty and fifty year old American
cars than any other vehicles of that age though. Other than at car
shows and vintage road race events the only old foreign cars I see very
often are Volkswagens and the occasional diesel Benz. (I did see,
believe it or not, a two stroke three cylinder Saab last night. First
one I've seen on the road in probably two decades plus.)

Friends who are foreign car buffs tell me that the way to make a Brit
or Euro car of any vintage run properly is to put in GM alternators, GM
transmissions (Google search "quarter-breed"), GM or Mopar ignition,
and so forth. Of course it's fun to show dickhead foreign car mechanics
how you've successfully replaced a $400 piece of **** (and they are)
Bosch alternator with a $30 Delco. How do you put a price on that level
of satisfaction?