[SirBrass]

Eventually the car will age such that it simply will not keep running. However, that isn't 10 or even 15 years down the road.

My parents had both a 1985 Nissan Kingcab and a 1987 Honda Accord that did this to them, but by the time they did (Nissan was the first to go, and this was back in... 2006 I think), they were very old and had been daily driven all their lives and had regular proper maintenance done on them. It's just that they'd be eating new seals and hoses like none other, as if they aged the new parts just by having them installed. It got to the point where my parents were spending a car-payment's worth of $$ each month to keep the cars in "running but unreliable" condition. Their mechanic bought both vehicles from them b/c he wanted to see if he could still fix whatever the problem was that he simply couldn't locate.

Anyway, those two vehicles simply got OLD. But they each had, I think, over 200k on their ODOs.

That's really the only age-related issue I've personally seen in modern automobiles, and I think ours may stand up even better than those 1980's cars did in the long haul, provided they're taken care of properly.