Any car older than 5 years is a gamble, a honda well driven will keep running problem free for over 10 years whereas the same couldn't be said if there is no service history, exterior maintainence, it also depends what kind of roads the car has been driven and that one can never know.. again, its a gamble, always keep a 200k overhead for a used honda/corolla , or you can also stretch the budget to 1.5m and get one which is much less used..