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Imho you exagerated it a bit. My line of thinking is like:
1) it's very cheap and good enough car in it's class and due that sold in high numbers, because of that community behind it became rather big. Due nature of forums, negative experience/problems are way more often reported/posted, then problem-free usage, which subjectively is 'as expected'. No wonder that all together may make it look like way worse then it is in how often really there are problems/broken parts/replacement frequency. For later one needs to access to lot of statistical data from dealers/serviceshops/manufacturer, that probably no average joe customer will never get. I'd rather bet that this car is 'normal', breaks as often as average, has acceptable share and frequency of problems as average. At least didn't saw much very major and serious recalls, and few reported problems didn't overshadow generic positive rating in my eyes.
2) purpose of this car/class, just like most other performance/sports cars, assumes also much heavier abuse then some only daily driven family hauler. I see it as upping chances to break something at least by few times. I don't expect WRX/STI/Evo/Type-Rs/M bmw-s and so on to last very long either. Most probably forums for those are full of threads about their specific problems too.
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