I had an old Honda that I ran for 15 years with no major trouble. By the time I got rid of it, it was 21 years old and a few non-essential things had failed with age but it would still start first time, every time.
Every year it would need a couple of minor things to get through its annual inspection but it was always cheap. One year my manager commented that I seemed to have a lot of trouble with my car because it needed something else that was maybe $200 to keep it going. I said it was an old car and just needed some TLC to keep it ticking. That year he had a major failure on his car that cost him nearly $5000. It took him a while to live that one down.