This thread cracks me up. "Trans will fail by 100K" LOL I've personally owned a lot of these cars in their high mileage years.
97 Bonneville (supposedly the worst year for the trans) and drove it with mods 12 hours to Ohio to have the trans rebuilt at 176K miles when it was feeling a little sloppy.
97 Regal GS at 180K and sold that, it went well over 200K when the 4th hub stripped.
98 Regal LS made it to 180K before the guy I sold it to destroyed 3rd gear with all kinds of abuse
DDing an 00 Regal GS now with rockers, plog, dp etc...at 172K and the trans feels great. Don't give me **** on this one, the ****in air filter was 6 years old according to the writing on it. Maintenance was like that for the previous owner who bought it at 78K and didn't do jack.
I could type all day about how well these cars can and do take normal driving extremely well. Abusive drive anything and parts will fail.
