I would have hoped someone would have told them to get the oil changed before they drove off the lot.
My neighbor almost bleeds Toyota, he loves his little mamby pamby first gen Highlander. When it recently needed a new tensioner, because his original one had seized up, he went into denial until the new belt he put on was tossed off on the Interstate.
I dated the girl for over a year. The Civic never missed a beat. I think I used Castrol GTX in it. She then bought a 330i; hoped she got that oil changed.....
Your neighbor is an idiot. It's a machine at the end of the day, Honda or Toyota or etc reliable brand.
Just for kickers, you should send your neighbor all those articles about the auto-acceleration in Toyota's that killed folks; or just send him the recall on 3rd gen Tacoma's leaking diff oil, lol.