We had one of these, I really liked ours.i thought it was good fun to drive. we had it from about 5 years old (there was rust on it then), kept it for about 4 years and over 40k miles.
we'd probably still have it now but we had to change it for a focus because we had a baby. it was just a shame about the rust problems they suffer from! they are also shockingly bad on fuel,