I had one as a company car (many years ago) and was utterly brilliant - after 18 months you could put your hand through the rust holes in the upper bodywork. They then gave me a Lancia Beta.....
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Bet you can guess the outcome. After a further 18 months I bought the car off the company for £475 for my dad (who filled in the holes and used it as a runaround) and got a Mk2 RS2000 in exchange
The Italiana were wonderful mechanically, but the panels would have been better made from old tomato tins!