you're the one who needs to open your eyes... the replacement parts and depraction value are both terrible for american cars.. NOT japanese, you just re-stated my point but for the wrong argument so your opinion means nothing to me because you have no idea what you're talking about. Also, american cars statistically have a shitload more go wrong with them than japanese, i owned a dodge neon.. got it with 100,000 miles in seemingly perfect shape and treated it like a baby.. i got rid of it with 130,000 miles after replacing a blown head gasket, brakes, tires, and when i got rid of it, it was leaking oil and tranny fluid, needed a new alternator, ANOTHER new head gasket, ANOTHER set of new brakes, the doors and windows had all kinds of things wrong with them, and god knows what else. the thing is that this car HAS to be reliable i live alone and have to depend on friends if something breaks down, I just can't risk owning a piece of shit. BTW if i sound heated it's because I'm getting attacked for having an opinion that the majority of people have expressed and shared on this board that american sucks and japanese owns, i think what's going on is blind pride for your vehicle. don't get me wrong, i think the 3 is great, there are a few things i would change, but I'm most likely buying this bitch tomorrow, I'm just concerned about reliablity, and I would appreciate people discussing this ford thing like adults instead of jumping down my throat about it. Now, what i heard is that ford helped mazda out when it was crashing and own some stock but that mazda is pretty self-contained when it comes to letting ford add their parts and ideas to mazda's cars (and the cars that did get ford parts were disasterous.. someone mentioned a transmission in some old 626 that had an assload of problems) 90%??? think about it folks... might as well go out and buy one of those POS focuses you guys are always bashing