You probably got one of the few that were well maintained and not abused. They were a reasonably priced turbo sports car and they got abused while not being maintained properly, or given some of the special treatment a turbo car demands. Build quality was not great to begin with and improper upkeep combined with many cars being worked on by people with no prior mechanical experience causes a lot of problems. It gets to the point where you have a set of problems to fix because of previous neglect, which don't all crop up at once but over time. Everything seems to need to have been replaced 10-15k miles ago, just as soon as you get the car running something else fails. Then there's the problems the previous owners caused. My car's previous owner did a bunch of subpar wiring and I only realized it when something failed and I pulled the wire loom off to see the main engine harness melted together in one lump. Also, most current owners are the same kind of broke kids that caused the problems in the first place, without enough money to pay to have the car fixed, working on it themselves with no previous experience, not even having money to fix things the right way themselves and having to jury-rig stuff and avoid replacing stuff that should be replaced "while you're in there". Unfortunately that describes where I was when I got my car. I now, at least, have a lot of experience fixing pretty much everything in the car, I just wish I had the money to go along with it, heh. My car would be much less of a POS if I could find a decent job.