Looking for opinions about PT Cruiser

I have an 03 GT which has the 220 HP turbo, ours is an autostick. We have about 85K miles on it now it has not been trouble free but the issues have been easy to fix;

Intake manifold gasket started leaking at 45k miles, the dealer covered it under the emissions warranty.

Both front wheel bearings have been replaced, they were getting nosiy. I did this my self and wasn't a bad job but you need a way to press them out and in. This happened around 60k miles.

The back lower control arm bushings needed to be replaced. This is common on these cars (my sons stocks them at his tire store) and I did my brothers too. It a simple job and you can do both sides in about an hour. The bushings are cheap about $15 each. I also replaced the sway bar bushings at the same time. This was done in the last 10k miles.

Where the rubber hose is crimped to the metal tube on one of the AC lines started leaking around 60k miles and need to be replaced. An easy but nuisance fix because the you can't get at the AC compressor connection without removing the top core support & grill, then rock the radiator, condensor, tranny cooler forward to gain access.

The LED display for mileage went dead in the dash cluster. Luckly there are places that fix these but the car sat in the driveway for four days waiting for it to be fixed.

The last time I changed the tranny fluid the auto tranny developed a very hard down shift from 4 to 3rd that required taking it to the dealer to have the tranny controller reflashed. They did it while I waited an only charged $30 but I never expected to have a problem because I was doing maintainence.

All that being said my wife loves the car. It gets about 22 mpg around town and 26-27 on the hiway, but you can drop the around town mileage down into the teens very easily if you keep spining the turbo up. It's quick and will easily out run the majority of cars on the road. My brothers 06 non turbo PT gets about the same mileage. There is a fair amount of road noise (especially if you are driving on concrete). The GT has 17" 50 series tires, 4whl disk brakes and a sport suspension, it handles well and stops very well.

I would not have expected the issues I have had to occur with less than 100k miles but those aggravations have been more than made up by the fact the car is a hoot to drive and my wife loves the attention she gets (electric blue with silver flames), plus she has really enjoyed adding all the little chrome do dads you buy for these cars.