A bit of both, beat and lots of flaws. The manual trans and the dual clutch autos? are full of problems and puke by 100,000 and most are a 3-4k fix. However id love to find a 20k mile one to mod a bit but there just are not any around. Mods are so limited to the 2.4 mostly by the PCM and they have the muilti air brick but I cheated with one and offset ground the 2.4 crank and added a bit of compression for my altitude and it adapted well. Then the next hurdle is the six speed auto trans, great for oem power but near its limit as is. Its a Korean trans used by a few other import cars of the time.
But left untouched they are a great setup and although slow they are fun to drive... the tq of the 2.4 makes them feel faster then they are.
2.4 Auto darts with under 100k miles are easy in the 8-9k area.
Some 2.4-s have oil burning issues but not all. the 2.0s are good also, the 1.6 turbo and manual are all junk by 100k.
Some well taken care of 2.4-s (auto) are now past 300k miles.
How come on the turbo cars? Rode hard approach for most of them? Or is it a bad design, like to lose head gaskets type stuff?
