I like it mate. Ive found the 'reliability/mechanical issues' to be nothing but a myth in my experience.
Maybe some are good and some are bad?!
I paid £400 for mine, £300 to get the headgasket uprated and the cambelt changed and thats it. Ive had it for around a year now and done 12K trouble free miles.
Yours looked good anyway mate, get another!!