I have had loads (about 8 lol), great cars, my mk1 v6 ghia X was a hell of a car for 300 quid, sold it on after 2 years at 178k still going strong!
my current st200 has 120k on the clock and is still fine
as said watch for the water pumps, the black plastic ones are the ones that fail, st200's have the white ones which seem ok

steve