it is all in how the car was taken care of. out of the 4 that my family has we have had the typical problems, nothing outragous or anything, but then again we take the time to fix things as needed or be preventative about it, funny out tempos that we had were about the same, they always got us home ...
obviously don't buy one that has been beat to death as you will most likely have problems, and do note there are many owners with high miles and they don't have many problems