... 12 years, 80k? That's what we call a granny driver, there. 
My Ford Focus is an '02. I commute 70 miles M-F, plus odds and ends on weekends; call it 400 miles / week, not counting roadtrips to Seattle and whatnot. The Blue Book on my Focus is only about $1000 less than I paid for it originally. As mentioned before, it's had only one major maintenance thing needed, which was replacing the clutch -- this year. We abuse the hell out of synthetic oil, too, mostly 'cause I tend to forget to do the oil change thing until we've come up on 8-10000 miles.
I can't argue that 90's-era Tauruses were crap. Dunno about the Mustangs, never owned one. My parents had a Taurus, though, and it died at least five times on them over about ten years of service.
I have nothing against Hondas... well, save for the tendency of idiots to buy a Civic and trick it out until it resembles some form of reject from the Fast and the Furious production set. That's probably not the car's fault, though.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
My Ford Focus is an '02. I commute 70 miles M-F, plus odds and ends on weekends; call it 400 miles / week, not counting roadtrips to Seattle and whatnot. The Blue Book on my Focus is only about $1000 less than I paid for it originally. As mentioned before, it's had only one major maintenance thing needed, which was replacing the clutch -- this year. We abuse the hell out of synthetic oil, too, mostly 'cause I tend to forget to do the oil change thing until we've come up on 8-10000 miles.
I can't argue that 90's-era Tauruses were crap. Dunno about the Mustangs, never owned one. My parents had a Taurus, though, and it died at least five times on them over about ten years of service.
I have nothing against Hondas... well, save for the tendency of idiots to buy a Civic and trick it out until it resembles some form of reject from the Fast and the Furious production set. That's probably not the car's fault, though.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs