I drove Chevies for 40 years, but gave up when my 1995 Blazer quickly became a money pit. I had brake failure on my Blazer in the first week. I subsequently bought a Mazda 3 and have had NO repairs in nearly 120,000 miles. I have replaced tires, a few headlight bulbs and a battery, but even the exhaust and brakes have yet to be touched. My Chevies typically started falling apart at 50,000 miles and it looks like the quality and reliability at GM hasn’t improved one bit.
I have a 2004 diesel crew cab. Well over 100,000 and still giving me trouble free cowboy Cadillac high riding reliable get the heck out of my way prius, service.
That said I will never buy another GMC goobermint motors product as long as the good Lord allows me to breath air.
“I drove Chevies for 40 years, but gave up when my 1995 Blazer quickly became a money pit. I had brake failure on my Blazer in the first week. I subsequently bought a Mazda 3 and have had NO repairs in nearly 120,000 miles. I have replaced tires, a few headlight bulbs and a battery, but even the exhaust and brakes have yet to be touched. My Chevies typically started falling apart at 50,000 miles and it looks like the quality and reliability at GM hasn’t improved one bit.”
Well, FWIW, we just purchased our second Chevrolet Avalanche 4WD. The first one, a 2003, served us for nearly 180,000 miles (including pulling an Airstream Trailer) an the only unscheduled maintenance was to replace the 4WD encoder. My wife and I agree, it was the best vehicle we have ever owned. Hope the 2013 does as well. OTOH, the Ford Exploder we had, went through brakes, water pumps, A/C compressors and transmissions like candy.
We put 426,000 miles on a 1990 Mazda 626. Also 160K on an RX-4 wagon until the family outgrew it and 190+K on two different GLC wagons we got after they were already very used.
We have 219K on the Honda CR-V and 241K on the Subaru Outback we own now.
And, in defense of the good old USA, we have about 315K on our Ford E350 7.3 diesel.