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[–] curbstickle 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

A well maintained vehicle is reliable, and poorly maintained vehicles are not.

I've seen plenty of well maintained and poorly maintained BMW's. Some with hundreds of thousands of miles on them, some of them sounding like they are ready to be made into a crushed metal cube with less than 100k. I say this as someone driving a car with over 350k miles, and having owned a Mercedes diesel with over 400k miles. Which I then sold and ran beautifully until it was in a nasty accident (though the driver came out fine).

Parts can be expensive, but they also can be expensive for VW's, Nissan's (especially Altimas of certain years that have a poorly designed exhaust and frequent sensor problems), and many others.

tl;dr, if you don't know cars, bring a mechanic to check out any vehicle you are interested in purchasing. Make and model play a role, but not so significant of one as good maintenance.