 This car might have been better as a 5 speed manual.  I personally would never build a 4 cylinder car with an automatic transmission.  It was underpowered and noisy from the beginning.  At about 59,000 miles I needed a major tune up and now it has a broken boot and front drive axle and the car has only little more than 70,000.  The handling in any weather conditions is sleepy at best.  It may be a front drive car but it should be able to control its back end a bit better.