Well it gets good gas mileage. As long as you change your oil and the timing belt and its components on time, there is not much that will go wrong with the car beside the normal other stuff just like all the rest of the cars. Yeah there are some recalls but every car out there has recalls as well. Ford, Chevy, Dogde, Toyota, Nissan, Kia, and all the rest of them have recalls in the last year on all makes and models and years. All small compact car have an interference engine and you will have to change timing components on them as well. The newer model of cars have less of a tolerance so they dont crash an engine as bad when the belt lets go but if you change the belt and components you should be fine.