Hondas generally come up near the top of the JD Power reliability surveys in the USA, so they are pretty reliable. If you are after unreliability, I seem to remember a colleague's work vehicle (a Nissan) in the 1980's which required an exchange engine at 4000 km! As far as I remember, he hadn't been thrashing it, although he was a stock car racer in his spare time. Luckily Nissan replaced the engine under warranty - it was burning a heap of oil.

