[Rick Lee]

Mrs. Lee has had one for four years and I hate the car with the fire of 1000 suns. Yes, it drives nice, and she's only had about, oh, $6k worth of warranty repairs so far. But the car is made of plastic. Everything except the wheels, engine block and body panels is made of plastic. It gets brittle and it breaks. I couldn't even hardwire a radar detector because there is no metal to mount a ground wire anywhere near the fuse panel. Everything, I mean everything, is plastic. The oil pan is plastic (which often cracks and is about a $1500 repair), the oil drain plug is plastic and strips if you try to remove it when it's hot. Even the new oil filter kits come with a new drain plug because they know you'll destroy the old one getting it out. They even have notched on them, so you get a chisel on it when you've stripped out the Allen groove. I could go on and on. Not a fun car to DIY stuff on.