My neighbours have a shart car, they cannot walk past our 126 without admiring it. They have only had it 3 months and it has had 700 plus spent in repairs. They are not good cars. The 126 probably isn't the most reliable, most comfortable or most capable of cars, but it is cheap and easy to repair, economical, a quite unexpected babe magnet (and nostalgic older person magnet), bloody good fun and as cute as you like.
No contest!
Marc