My car is the one one thing left I can truly control so I keep it very nice and I change the oil after 3000 miles and do everything the manauel tells me to do. I only have to fill up every 3 weeks and it still looks pretty good. I got it for my 40th beday that was almost 9 years ago. My car treats me good so I treat it good., and funny thing it is a 99 Pontic grand am