Keep in mind the above info is for their L series cars and not the S series.

Overall, everyone I know with an S series around here has been happy. From my roomates mothers 95ish, to my 2000, and coworkers 2001, and others, it's been a good experience. While not the best cars on the road for peformance or confort, they do decently on gas mileage, and are good enough for the normal daily drive, or roadtrip to California.

Maintaince on mine has been tire repair (it seems mine attracted every screw in town my first few months of ownership), normal maintaince, and one problem with a coolant hose having a small leak. Thats after 35k miles now.