My wife had an 03 we bought in 05 or so with 35K on it, we kept it until it had 75K. It was a great car, never had any trouble with it. I ran it 90-100mph on the way to nashville one time with a group of cars doing the same and it still got like 30mpg.

Only odd thing was the insurance as kind of high. We sold it and got an Acura TL that is double everything of the neon, power, price, etc etc and the insurance was actually cheaper than it was on the neon.