This aint nothing new - the beloved "chyassi corolla" was a class example.
There were tons of them with such issues - mostly rebuilt with shoddy repairs and sold as jenyan paint "hand over heart qasam used car dealers"
All that matters for the buyer is
1 - better than his neighbors car
2 - more air bags than his neighbors car
3 - looks like pokemon
4 - cheap to buy
they usually end up in cardio vascular ward or stroke ward when they see a true repair bill.
