You don't live in Michigan, do you? Road salt and the worst roads in the country killed those things. I see them all the time with the bottoms rusting out. It happened to my fiance's before she traded it in, it was weeks away from dropping the passenger seat out of it.
The drivetrains however, were bulletproof. Mine and hers both made it to 150k miles with little trouble beyond normal wear and tear type stuff, though mine had a seemingly unusual appetite for alternators.