My husband bought this car in September 2024. Almost immediately, the car started having problems. Several parts needed to be replaced--fortunately, the car was under warranty. We took the car to Kentucky to visit our son and his family. The car did fine on the trip. The next day, the car refused to start in a parking lot and it needed to be towed. After we got it back it continued to have problems. I think the last straw happened a few weeks ago. My husband drove the car half a block from our house and it stopped in the middle of the street. We still owed money on the car but my husband said that he was DONE. We returned the car and it went to an auction a few days ago. We're looking for another car.

I bought this car used from a personal seller. It had 127,000 miles on it when I bought it and I thought that would be okay considering everything I read was saying this car lasts to about 200,000 miles. But within a week of owning it the AC went out. Over the next 5 months I spent over $1,200 on just replacing every part that is needed for the AC to function. In all general replacements for the car I’ve spent over $1,500 in repairs over the past 5 MONTHS. After everything was replaced and I was feeling very relieved, the car started slightly declining to accelerate and revving every single time I pressed on the gas. After a few weeks of that getting worse, I had the codes read and turns out that the entire engine was failing and needed replacement asap. All of this was happening at only 130,000 miles at this point. I realized that I’d just been feeding a corpse, so I decided to give up and get a new car. Aside from all that junk, the design of the car itself on the interior is very nice. That is honestly all that this car has going for it, though. If you’re reading this review in hopes to get some affirmation about this car being a good buy, this is your sign not to. Do not throw your money away and save yourself the time. Do not buy this car, it’s not worth it.

We bought a sonic lt with a 1.4 turbo engine, great gas mileage and no major problems. As long as you keep up the maintenance the reliability is great.