I ran one of these as a shed for 20000miles in a year, paid 1800 for it and sold it a year later for 1400. Did absolutely nothing to it and it was faultless...and I gave it a fair old thrashing. Cheapest motoring I've ever had.
Only sold it as I'd be doing less miles and the zed was gathering dust so started using that again as my daily driver.
Has a cam chain so no worry about belts, I'd go for one of these over a saxo/corsa any day.
Just normal checks for buying a used car needed
I'm pretty sure these were found to be the cheapest used car to run 2 or 3 years ago.