What time of the year did you get your 38 MPG? Prius's are notorious for losing MPG in the winter.

Hello, failing timing belt tenionser...

The Catera's 3.0L Vauxhall UK engine had a nasty habit of its timing belt tensioner failing, trashing the engine. Once that happens, it's never right.

The Catera's engine was its achilles heel.

When my '98 Catera's engine blew over the timing belt tensioner, it was never the same.

I still see some last-model year Catera's on the road, so that has to account to something (albeit it's damning with faint praise.)

The Catera in the states had a particularly nasty tendency to have the timing belt fail, causing a massive engine failure. GM did a quiet recall at first, but even that wasn't enough and had to do a full recall.