Oil leak around 50,000 miles that never got repaired.
Locked-up calipers at 78,000 miles.
Had car aligned three times, and replaced the water pump. Replacement of almost all bolt-on engine components required removal/replacement of timing belt (very annoying and costly!)
This car felt as cheap as a car gets from its quality-- everything felt cheap as could be, brake problems (especially from locked up calipers on front brakes, alignment issues, and the issue with replacment of the timing belt-- My car even had a passenger-front side mirror that did not come standard with this car!!! How crazy was that??
The seats were comfortable, though for medium-range drives, and the engine with automatic transmission felt very weak for this automatic, with hardly any power for passing at highway speeds...
This was my first car I purchased and it felt cheap and required so much maintenance...
And yet... you kept it for 5 years and 94,000 miles so your complaints ring kind of hollow... any car will require maintenance, and some of the things you complain about (no passenger side mirror, lack of pickup with automatic) were things that you should have noticed before purchase.
The car had a cheap feel because it was a cheap car.
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