Infamous Cadillac XLR, any good for a daily driver?

I'm very tempted to buy one of these beauties, but I'm Honda man and in the past i have naturally despised brands like Cadillac and Ford because I'm used to zero maintenance even at 200000 miles. Does anyone own this car or know owners of it? There's an amazing looking one up for sale right now. It is perfect in every way with a very low price tag of 10k. The two downsides are that it is an 04 (first of the generation is usually iffy) and it has about 120k miles on it. I want to know if this is a straight up deal breaker.

I rhink ir would be a very risky purchase, so it would have to be dirt cheap.

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