I had a real lemon of a car -- it was fine until a mechanic fixed the a/c and suddenly the entire car went to hell -- but it also drove amazingly well in snow and ice. I replaced it with a relatively new Grand Prix, which has also been an absolute lemon. We spent $8000 on fixing it the first 2 years. Now it runs fine because it has all new innards, but the outside is looking pretty beat thanks to a few hail storms and some burgeoning rust.