Reliability
My wife wishes that Honda still made this model. The Element is the SUV of choice for dog show agility people, and possibly others who show dogs. When you take the back seats out there is plenty of room for 3 large crates plus all the other stuff you need. However they tend to wear out at 200,000 miles as opposed to other Hondas which run forever..(I got 307,000 miles out of my 1997 Honda Civic before maintenance issues finally required me to trade it in..on another Civic)