Modern engineering(or cost cutting) sucks! We have to pour the most expensive oil, the best filter in our cars, and they still go screech ...BANG! The starter's plastic lever breaks often before the 100,000 mile mark.I have a bad down paddle switch, and the brake switch had been replaced, the tail light sockets have bad contacts in them, sometimes they melt. My 2002 Saturn has whatever plain oil is on sale with a cheap Fram filter, and 7500mi oil changes(it has an oil change light) and at 258.000 miles it's just about done, it's not burning any oil, but the engine is getting mechanically noisy, It still has the original timing chain, I replaced the $20 water pump at 240,000 miles starter at 230,000 miles it still has the original alternator.I have never had a switch go bad.The intake, valves and injectors have never been cleaned. It still gets about 32mpg combined driving. I realize it's 1000# lighter, and 75HP less, but there is something wrong with this picture.
Saturn is not perfect either, they have had major problems with a bad batch of piston rings, horrendous CVT problems also, but on the Vue, When back under GM control, problems with the ION timing chains, to name a few