The mrs had a 53 plate for 3 years, from new, and that started to go rusty around filler cap and rear wiper in that time, never paid much attention to the fuel economy as it was a fair bit cheaper to run then, cracking car to chuck around the bends, they're geared to give good acceleration even in 5th. best thing was when other cars had to pull over to let us past on motorways. Only problems we had was a plug lead went off at 1 year old and the alternator packed up when 2 and a bit year old. if i could find a decent garage to store one in i'd buy one for the track straight away