I have a '97 Acura 2.2CL (built Dec 1996) with 190,000 miles as my commuter car. I bought it in 2001. Here is what is wrong with it:
Plastic headlight housing are yellowed and cloudy.
Got into my only fender-bender ever a couple of years ago (hit a VP at my company!) and the hood is out of whack.
Just last week, tore the mudflap off the front right passenger wheel housing getting out of a snow bank.
Passenger side window takes about one minute to go up and makes one hell of a racket doing so.
Driver's seat leather is torn and worn to an inch of it's life.
Just replaced my third radiator.
One fuel injector runs lean meaning the check engine light is always on.
ABS sensors are shot, so I only have regular brakes.
CV joints are going and sound like dueling marachas when making a turn
Bearings in A/C assembly are loose and the defroster sounds like a whore in heat for a while until, Fonzie like, I pound on the dash and it goes away.
Rear driver's brake leaks fluid
Kids have trashed the back seat with applesauce, pretzels, juice and garbage so bad that I once had cockroaches in the car. I only knew this because dead cockroaches were appearing on the back parcel shelf in the summer.
Rear wheel arches are rusted and I will someday drop my bumper on the road after the bolts rust out. Probably won't know it and will just show up wherever I am going and then notice I don't have a bumper.
But, with all that if you take away the radiator replacement the only things that I have changed have been fluids, brake pads and rotors, and the muffler (just once in 13 years.) It gets great MPG, still has get up an go, starts every morning even in double digit below zero readings, and as long as it will keep on truckin' (carin'?) I will drive it the 22 mile commute round trip.
We also have a brand spanking new 2013 Honda Odyssey, and I have for my summer cruising enjoyment a 1985 BMW 535i in Cinnabar Red.