Not only inexpensive cars! Unfortunately, most American drivers never understood or respected the amount of maintenance European cars required, especially when compared to American vehicles. Here in SoCal, used Ferrari 308s became fairly affordable and the singles' bar hopping disco guys scooped them up. They couldn't afford, or just refused, to properly maintain them, so they would drive them until the car quit and would leave them on the side of the road. Made me sick... I also saw a bunch of maintenance neglect on Porsche 924s, 928s and quite a few 911s that were bought to impress others, but not to be appreciated.