It's been wonderfully reliable and has never left me at the shoulder. Once, I needed a jump start as I didn't pay close enough attention to the hint the battery gave me. I was in town and a willing motorist was parked right next to me - no waiting.

It has pulled a Texan's car out of the snow at Rocky Mountain National Park and has offered up fuel (I have a fuel rail tap to pump out fuel for a stranded motorist) to a late night stranded Jeep on the I-80 bridge over the Platte River (between Lincon and Omaha). As I recall, he was on leave from the military and wanted to surprise his girlfriend a day early for a visit. A short bit to pump enough fuel to get him to the nearest gas station six miles down the road.

It has suffered two collisions - one the driver's fault (the first owner rear ended another vehicle) and one with me at the wheel (a gent pulled out of a storefront and wanted to merge into the right side of me). Surprisingly (and thankfully), one needs to look fairly hard to see any damage (passenger door pushed in slightly).

It has but one quirk: On a winter Illinois <> Colorado trip, near the end of a one-day-drive, with the car running freeway speeds and temps dropping late at night, the check engine light will pop on with an EGR fault. The car performs as normal. That quirk is reliable - cold outside temps on a long, high speed freeway drive is the only condition for it to happen - never on a summer trip and never in town on a cold night.

*Why, you ask, do I have fuel stats? It was something Dad and Mom did (the gas book in the glove compartment). I don't know if they looked at the stats but I recall them writing them down. I'm somewhat curious as to the stats so on a fuel receipt I write down the ODO reading. At home I type in the date, ODO, cost, gallons, location into an easy to access spreadsheet. The spreadsheet graphs Cost/Mile, Miles/Gallon, Miles/Dollar. I don't much look at the stats aside from looking at any out of the ordinary numbers. It doesn't take much time and gives curious flavor to a write-up such as this.