High quality != high feature count. You are conflating the two with your anology.
You don't want to daily drive a 30 year old performance oriented Mercedes.
An Accord however, most generations can hit 300k miles easily.
The Mercedes is more expensive because they put more investement into refinement and luxury. Make the doors feel right. Ensure the torque curve is flat and starts at a low RPM, usually using turbo chargers that will fail by 200k miles. Lots of carefully placed sound deadening.
You don't want to daily drive a 30 year old performance oriented Mercedes.
An Accord however, most generations can hit 300k miles easily.
The Mercedes is more expensive because they put more investement into refinement and luxury. Make the doors feel right. Ensure the torque curve is flat and starts at a low RPM, usually using turbo chargers that will fail by 200k miles. Lots of carefully placed sound deadening.
This isn't higher quality, it's extra features.