Faults:

Replaced the alternator at 90,000 and again at 165,000 miles.

The front window drive motors have begun to malfunction.

Interior is beginning to look worn, but then again, so am I.

General Comments:

I have owned domestics and imports, and this is by far one of the best cars ever. The car was reasonably priced and easy to maintain.

I do much of my own maintenance, and this vehicle has been very easy to work on (Oil changes, Brake replacements, tune up, etc).

The car performs as expected. Lets not forget that it is a grocery getter! The car has adequate power for highway and city driving, even when fully loaded. The ride is comfortable and it handles well.

Faults:

Faulty Break Line caused brakes to fail within the first year.

Very minimal routine maintenance and the car runs like a champ.

General Comments:

I love this car, the interior has held up remarkably well considering that I use the car to camp, backpack, transport children, wet paintings and all the ordinary stuff of life. It has been amazingly inexpensive to maintain and gets great gas mileage. In it's old age it has developed a fondness for oil, so I keep it topped off. As a brand new teacher (translation-impoverished) I am trying to stretch it out another year. I hope to get a VUE hybrid.

Faults:

The window stopped operating on the driver's side. The mechanism inside the door panel had to be replaced. Rust underneath the rear doors on the body panel, and the rear window triangle support rusted.

General Comments:

Great gas mileage. And handles very well.

Faults:

This car burned excessive oil. By the time it reached 100k miles, it burned so much that if I weren't adding extra every few weeks, by the time it was time for the next oil change (every 3000 miles), there wouldn't have been hardly any left!

The brakes have never worked well. I've taken it to the dealer many times asking to have them checked, but each time I'm told nothing is wrong. Still the brakes feel soft, and if I have to stomp on them to stop immediately, the car doesn't stop right away, causing me to think I've got little or no brakes at all.

The dashboard and paneling snaps have all broken by 100k miles, and the move and rattle while driving over 40 MPH.

The turning radius is VERY wide. I can almost never make a "U" turn, it just doesn't turn sharp enough, even on wide streets, I have to use the "3 point turn-about".

The transmission began to have some problems about 90k miles. It wouldn't upshift until 4-5k rotations per minute. When it does shift, it knocks very hard.

At 116k miles, it had shorts in the power door lock system, which come and go mysteriously.

The power window motor died at 100k miles, the dealer asked for $350 to repair it. I bought a motor from the junkyard for $25, but I now know why the dealers ask for $350; the door was the biggest pain to take apart.

General Comments:

A decent car up until 100,000 miles.