Went with my daughter to look at a 2018 Jeep for $23k that she was interested in, it has 58k miles. Carfax showed it came from Virginia. Has had 6 different owners. Has had 2 clutches installed during its 58k mile life (very odd). As an auto shop owner/mechanic I was looking it over while my daughter talked to the salesman.
Check engine light didn't work, I also brought my scanner and they let me scan it (surprised actually), lots of codes hidden by inoperative check engine light, underneath it looked like pond scum all over the bottom, it's a Jeep and wasn't real surprised but it was obvious it hadn't been off road much if at all. They seemed surprised that the check engine light didn't work (they knew). She still drove it and realized they're cool to look at but not drive as a daily for her.
I'm in Alabama and see flood cars after floods happen sometimes, she didn't buy it and enjoyed watching Dad own used car salesman, I think she also figured out ole Dad can be how he needs to be when needed. Never let a used car salesman bully you into a car you don't need/want, they tried and figured out it wasn't happening.
Flood cars usually will end up at auctions in different states, beware and be aware.
She found a Honda Civic she’s interested in. She’s shopping, I’ll go look at whatever she wants to look at, even I think it’s a no, she’s learning something at the moment. She has a Toyota Corolla and hates it. I taught her to drive a manual when she was learning to drive and I gave her a great 04 Mazda 3, manual. Traded in for the 24 Toyota, auto and regrets it. I told her she would.
Actually been trying to get her to wait until market levels out(ish).
I've driven a honda crv (non cvt) for 5 or 6 years, and we also have 2 toyota rav4. CRV is WAY more fun and smooth and just feels faster, rides better and feels much bigger than the RAV4. The CRV, even though its a basic A:B car, it's suprisingly smooth and crisp, overall the best car I've owned when all things considered together such as reliability, ride, power, handling, practicality and cost of ownership etc.
The toyotas are super reliable but it may be that they are inherently boring. Not sure. Honda's background with motorcycles might mean they have some soul.
Regardless, any mechanic says toyota is #1 but honda is always a close #2.
People will swap in a Honda K24 into some other car and turbo it to 700 hp, but IIRC the only Toyota engine people do that with is the 2JZ-GTE supra engine from a long time ago.
I'm going to be looking for a different car soon, and I've got some Toyotas in mind, but if they're boring when I drive them I'll pass.