Samuel P. Morris

Don't know about all that, but in the long run it will last as long as your Ford will that's a given. And at thousands less, to maintain it as well. I say drive what you like and be happy. I thought my 2012 iQ was a great car. Of course now I discover the Spark has the lowest cost of onwership over a 5 year period of any vehicle on the road acording to those s called experts and has an even better reliability rating than my iQ had. Oh well, live and let live is what I always say.

Well, you'll usually hear all sorts of complaints from the younger crowd when they first buy a new vehicle. Try and remember we have a couple two/three generations now with holier than now attitudes and expectations. Couple that with how the Internet has given rise to b.s. as an art form and almost down to a science, meaning even the one time rag 'Consumer Reports' are full of bias and b.s. We Americans tend to base and judge everything on 0-60 times and leather interiors. Had I listen to all the so called people in the know out there I'd miss out on a great deal I got on my Spark, not to