My 2006 Toyota Corolla has provided me with over nine years of headache free ownership. I have driven my Corolla cross-country twice, as well as back and forth between Pennsylvania and Southern Virginia several times and have yet to encounter a significant problem. I have never owned a vehicle that required so little maintenance, and so few expenses. Over the nine years I have had this car, the most expensive issue I have had is when I had to purchase four new tires at one time. Other than that, the issues have been small and have not caused me significant financial strain. There are over 140,000 miles on my car now, it is still running perfectly, and I hope to get a few more years out of it!

I purchased this car used, when it already had 130k miles on it. Since then I've put about two thousand miles on it myself. The car itself is a great build and she's running wonderfully even with how old she is. She does have a habit of eating a bit more oil than I'd like. Apparently it can be fixed, but it's a bit pricey so I haven't gotten around to getting it fixed. She also has a bit of a problem with rusting around the back drivers side tire. It's something very common to a lot of the little Toyotas, and it's been fixed on this car a number of times. As long as it's caught early, it doesn't turn out to be too much of a problem though. I have a buddy that does car repairs for me so it's only a couple bucks rather than a few hundred. This girl gets around 28 MPG with a mix between highway and city driving. I never drive either one enough to figure out which she gets, but I did take a 220 mile trip on one tank of gas and had some to spare! The trunk space is amazing as well. For such a little car, I can really pack a lot of stuff into it. When I was moving, my parents were just shocked by the sheer amount of packages that I was able to pack into that little thing. She had a bit of trouble getting up hills when I packed her so full though. I was going 30 mph up this one hill back home while cars were flying past me going 50. Oh well, nothing I can do about that.