A little poll about maintenance and how long you keep your car

[shingor6]

I was wondering when you buy or rent a car, how long do you intend to keep them, what brand and model do you buy?

Also are you satisfied by the maintenance cost/ reliability?

So here's a template for each car :

Brand :
Model :
Year :
How long you intended to keep it :
How long you actualy kept it :
How old was the car :
How many KM :
Maintenance cost satisfaction :
Reliability satisfaction :
Why you got rid of it :
Resale value :

Brand : Honda
Model : Civic
Year : 1993
How long you intended to keep it : 5 years
How long you actualy kept it : 4 years
How old was the car : 12 years
How many KM : 260000
Maintenance cost satisfaction : Extremly satisfied : basicly oil change, timing belt and brakes
Reliability satisfaction : no problems at all
Why you got rid of it : My father give me his old car
Resale value : 3500$

Brand : Honda
Model : Civic
Year : 1996
How long you intended to keep it : 5
How long you actualy kept it : 4
How old was the car : 12
How many KM : 330000
Maintenance cost satisfaction : Extremly satisfied : basicly oil change, timing belt and brakes
Reliability satisfaction : only problems were intake manifold and wiper motor
Why you got rid of it : rust problem under the car, everything was about to go
Resale value : 4000$

Brand : Mazda
Model : 3
Year : 2007
How long you intended to keep it : 10
How long you actualy kept it : 4
How old was the car : 4
How many KM : 75000
Maintenance cost satisfaction : Ok
Reliability satisfaction : Good
Why you got rid of it : The engine was about to go, major design flaw of the oil filter
Resale value : 5500$

Brand : Kia
Model : Rio
Year : 2009
How long you intended to keep it : 10 years
How long you actualy kept it : 7 years (I hope)
How old was the car : 7 years
How many KM : 37000
Maintenance cost satisfaction : really bad
Reliability satisfaction : extremly bad
Why you got rid of it : because it's unreliable
Resale value : probably 200$

Brand : VW
Model : GTI
Year : 2012
How long you intended to keep it : 10 years
How long you actualy kept it : 10 years I hope
How old was the car : 10 years
How many KM : 14000 km so far
Maintenance cost satisfaction : Good
Reliability satisfaction : Good
Why you got rid of it : Because it start to cost to much in maintenance
Resale value : probably 9k$

[aqnd]

Brand : Pontiac
Model : Sunfire
Year : 2005
How long you intended to keep it : 5 years
How long you actually kept it : still have it.
How old was the car : 7.5 years
How many KM : 130000
Maintenance cost satisfaction : Extremely. Oil and brakes only.
Reliability satisfaction : Extremely, zero issues.
Why you got rid of it : Likely will replace only for desire for something new/different or at first major failure, due to overall value vs repair cost.
Resale value : Essentially nothing, lol.