I'm assuming from the responses that the interior longevity will depend on the owner, fair enough. Two primary questions remain, if anybody has any input on them:

1) Can the suspension be cheaply and easily firmed up? The car I drove bobbed like a yoyo while accelerating.

2) Is the manual shifter a bowl of pudding from the factory or did the one I drove just end up like that? I couldn't handle that.

Thanks everybody!