 After driving the car over a year and two months ...no mechanical problems.. besides maintaince the car does feel solid and all of its mechanism built as a highly quality product from Japan. The acceleration on the car is better than most .. And handling is really good and freeway merging is good for a 2.0 liter but the automatic transmission sometimes trashes the engine as if rev off sync with the trans ..kind of like a car from the 1980's or something Mazda could have refined the transmission as they did with the engine as it has plenty of power. Kinda left me begging for more zoom zoom when coming out of corners ..why Mazda?