A friend of mine bought one of those Aspires new. The engine was dead within 50k miles. He blamed it on Ford, but I found out later he had never performed any type of maintenance on it whatsoever, including oil changes. Still had the factory fill in it.
Later he bought a used Blazer and he killed that one too, all the oil had burned out of it and he never paid any attention to it. Some people will never learn.