Well I cannot even come close to saying that about our 2004 Ford Escape. It has been the dead BEST vehicle we have ever owned hands down. It has over 202,000 miles on it now and runs as good as it did when it was new. We did have to have the transmission built at around 165K, but my friends did all the updates to it and it's been great. Well worth it. I'd buy another one, but they don't make them like this anymore.