I have a CRV and I absolutely love it. It has almost a 100,000 miles and runs just like it was new.I used to have a Honda Civic Hatchback and it was a GREAT little car. Sold it when I became a parent (needed a bigger vehicle) with way over 200,000 miles on that. Neither vehicle has ever had to have anything other than maintenance type work done. Neither went through oil, or developed rattles. In between the two Hondas I went through TWO minivans - both developed transmission problems with less than 60,000 miles and both were "eating" oil with less than 40,000 miles - both of those were nothing but junk - but were "American" vehicles (just not assembled in the USA).