My wife and I own a 2010 Volkswagen Routan minivan with 38,000 miles that we purchased in our pre-mustachian life. Blue book on the van is about $16,000. It is under warranty for 4 more years or some number of miles we won't get to. We owe just under $11,000 on it.
My wife is pretty certain that we NEED a car that seats 7, so I was looking up Honda Odyssey's and Toyota Sienna's on Craigslist. I was thinking of something like a 2003 Honda Odyssey with 90K-120K miles on it for around $9,000. I hear lots of opinion on the internet i.e. this car will last forever, that one is horrible, the other is "like so totally reliable", etc, etc. But I don't find all that particularly helpful. Is there a way to find quantify the repair and maintenance costs of vehicles....maybe somewhere that lists the mean and standard deviation of maintenance and repair costs?