We road tripped our 2005 240K+ mile CR-V 750 miles each way every Christmas without a worry. We’d still be road-tripping in that if a negligent Subaru driver hadn’t rear-ended us and pushed us into a Prius ahead as the middle car in a sandwich.

The car before that was a 1998 Mercedes diesel with 225K+ miles on it that retired only because of body rust not mechanicals.

It helps that I did all the maintenance, so I knew how reliable they were.

Cars are insanely reliable and people get irrationally fearful when a car turns 100K and then again at 200K.

Agreed. I don't suspect "you are most people" but you can try to convince me otherwise.

What I said was what I think most people do. Not what is possible.

Do a lot of people sell a car that’s never once left them stranded at under 175K miles out of concern? Sure.

But I think most people who daily drive 175K mile cars would rely on them for a road trip without much consternation.

Almost no one does maintenance regular enough to have cars that haven’t grenaded something well before that point.

I know people that have literally never changed their oil.

One plus for electric cars though, fewer side effects for that kind of thing I guess?