Cars that you didn’t expect to be so reliable?

What are some cars you’ve bought for cheap or bought and were not expecting to be so reliable?

• My sister in law owned a 2006 Chevy cobalt that got totaled by a deer at just shy of 300k. She bought it with 120k miles and definitely didn’t take very good care of it.

• My parents owned a ford windstar that would not die. It went over 250k miles before they traded it in.

• I owned a 1999 Isuzu trooper that I bought in college for $1,500. It had 220k when I sold it to a neighbor. They are still driving it today and it’s at over 400k. Transmission was rebuilt once, original engine.