1998 Toyota Camry yay or nay

Couple years back, buddy of mine was looking for a car for his daughter. He asked me to go with him to check out the 3 possible choices, one was a Saturn, another one was a Neon, and the third was a 99 Camry. All were around the same mileage and within a few hundred dollars in price. He was leaning towards the Saturn, his wife has one, factory ordered. The Neon was a complete POS, the Saturn had bearing issues and some body damage, while the Camry a few more miles and a little bit of rust. He went with the Camry, it was a bit more than he was planning to spend, but almost 3 years later, she's still driving it and is very happy with it. Has around 250k miles on it now.