My mate's had a couple. First one had about 40k on the clock, he shifted it on and took a massive hit on the finance as the rotor tips had worn.
The coil packs on them tend to break - but only intermittently, not completely fail. Means that it overfuels which tends to do the rotary equivalent of bore wash - wearing the rotor tips prematurely. It's a lottery buying a secondhand one as they need regular oil top ups - so if you've got a maintenance shy previous owner you're buying a whole heap of problems.
Expect around 21-22mpg with varied driving. Even on the motorway taking it steady my mate couldn't get above 25mpg.
If you get one and only ever do short journeys where it never gets warm, you'll kill it pretty quickly - think there's even a note in the handbook to let it get warm before turning it off.
If I could live with the poor economy I'd buy a new or nearly new one, and shift it on just before the warranty was out. Can get some really good deals on new/nearly new examples from main dealers and they do handle very nicely.
