I absolutely love my Corolla, it is the best car I have ever purchased. It has 250,000 plus miles on it and it just keeps going. I have had to do minimal maintenance on it because it is built so well with quality parts. I had no big mechanic bills until I had the car well over 5 years, and even then I have never had anything major that cost more than $600 have to be replaced. Only regular maintenance like brakes, tires, filters etc. The car is small but it gets great gas mileage. We had 1 recall on the car which Toyota fixed right away for no charge.