I had a 2008 mazda3. I put 70k miles on it in 2 years. Only thing I had to do to it was change the oil. It did good in snow. A blizzard hit and I was pretty much the last car to make it up a mountain on the interstate and ended up making it home when the rest of the world was stuck in their cars.

I got rid of it because I decided I wanted a miata and didn't want to lose any more value in it than I already had. I was commuting 100miles a day.