 I've had this car for over 6 years (second owner, received from sweet Grandmother during college at 40k miles), 110k+ miles, it's seen Drifting in Death Valley, New York City traffic jams, San Francisco hills, mountain roads of Aspen, Colorado. Here's my experience in short: Given the car is now 10+ years old I recommend purchasing one only if you have mechanical experience that will allow replacing of coils/reaching the engine to make minor repairs typical to this model at home, it's guaranteed to be one of the first major things to happen and the biggest cost is labor. On the up side there's a lot of information available in forums about this model courtesy of dudes who like to work on their Fords and share it on the web, thanks guys!  Here's the full details of repairs I've had, Reliability has been pretty low, I'm not talking about normal wear like breaks, tires, shocks, oil. About once a year something major goes wrong, first it was a tubing system that was permanently out of stock 4 years after the car was released (we made another tube work with some ingenuity), this has happened every few years - part never comes back into stock...what's up with that? Next the computer went out, then it went out again 20k miles later, now I am having trouble with Cylinder misfires in Cylinder 1 & checking the forums it looks like this is a really common problem for the 2003-2005, sometimes resulting in multiple cylinders going in a 'domino' like fashion over the course of 3-6 months, quite pricey if you can't work on it yourself as the labor to reach some of the cylinders can reach 600.00 US Dollars each go. Currently trying to decide if I'll keep the car and go around with the Cylinder issues, many other users on forms around the web have spent the money to replace all cylinder coils, the spark plugs, and then find out the PCM is bad after the 1000-2000 US Dollar replacements have been made, costing even more and triggering a chain of break downs in the process while the issue develops over time.