Overall I'm happy w/ my neon... I've put over 20k miles on it since i bought it a little over a year ago.. only problem I've had is when I hydrolocked it, I think it may have either bent a rod or cracked a piston slightly, but continued to run for another 2-3 months untill I was gettin on it a bit ~6000RPMs and it puked a rod. (~71k miles on stock motor) Oil was always extremely clean at oil changes.

I had the clutch replaced the day before that happened, and I'm guessing the reason it went so quick, is the lady that had it before me actually had a trailer hitch on it, and towed a trailer for her arena car. (I dont get it either) lol