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I wondered the same thing, so I bought one a few years ago.
Mine was a VERY nice S2 version. Mechanically perfect, and cosmetically it looked like a brand new car.
That engine was plenty smooth, and plenty powerful. I had no complaints there. The brakes and handling were great.
And it was a very good looking car. Loved the box flares and the turbo bumper and rear underspoiler.
It was a good car, I had no real complaints (some parts of it were kind of finicky). But did I love it? No, can't say that I did.
I had it for around 3 years before I sold it. (I did sell it for more than double what I paid for it, so that was nice).
As a child of the 80s I'll always have a soft spot for them, though. I could even see buying another one some day, but, oddly, it would have to be an '83, with no power steering and with the manual, not power, sunroof. And it would have to be in decent driver condition, at a good price (like less than $5-6K).
As far as low price, I think that's mainly because they made a lot of them, a decent number are still on the road, and many of them have been neglected and need some work. Top 2% examples (like mine was) can get surprisingly strong numbers.
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