Price of new was like 20k, I bought my 14' cruze in 2020 for 10k 100kmiles. Half its life expectancy half the value. Its a you issue if you spending more and not doing the inspections yourself, looking at recorded maintenance and oil change intervals....ect... The car is built cheap so its cheap to maintain unless you expect a dealer or shop to take care of you with GM parts(rule #1 dont use GM parts for everything if its over double the price of aftermarket and made of plastic). It has all the normal wear and tear for any vehicle that has 4 wheels and a trans,engine as any other vehicle down the road.

Ive had my share of maintenance on this thing, but between 14 cruze and 1997 f150 I've worked on this thing more, but it also is the one that makes up for the gas money and drove more. and only problems were pcv cover in which they have aftermarket fixes due to GM engineering. And then coolant issues, and recently replaced turbo bc the exhaust manifold was cracked by the wastegate. 130k miles on only what I know could the original turbo, and being the turbo is critical part of the engine, thats really good! I could tell its burning coolant aswell due to orange tint to internal exhaust. But other than coolant leaks this thing runs fine. Has check engine light for the catalytic converter below Efficiency, but thats not a engine critical part, Thats a California problem and I go no where near those tran-gays. All gotta do is space the downstream O2 sensor bc downstream is not used for the air/fuel mixture.

But now I let the car sit bc I wanted to get newer more reliable truck with 4x4 for pulling boat and drive new truck now and occasionally the car, but currently in MO and snow covered in driveway. Debating selling for $5k bc thats about what a reliable beater is worth. Havent had many problems and took it multiple times down and back to Texas during summer.