My daughter has had one for her last year of high school and four years of college - it has about 225,000 miles on it. Other than routine maintenance, she has had no problems with the Civic - still gives great gas mileage. here is what she's had to replace in 5 years and an awful lot of miles: ignition switch, driver's door key/lock, muffler twice, brakes two or three times, major tune-up at 100K and 200K, dashboard lights about 6 months ago, tires and wiper blades, driver door "safety switch", and I think that is it - Parts have always been available and plenty of mechanics to fix itOf course, she does have it serviced regularly - oil change every 5,000 miles, flush cooling system every 70,00 miles - that sort of stuff.We definitely would buy one again.