I had a 2003 GT 5MT, and since it was a fairly rare variant of the model, I had to drive it back home to Nevada from Texas. That said, i chose it as a safe family car for my kids who were just babies at the time. The car was fun to drive, had four airbags and had 16k miles when I bought it. When I sold it at 178k miles, it was still running on its original clutch, although it had started to slip by then.
It wasn't without problems over those 10 years. The viscous coupling gave out at around 90k miles, and that was about $1500 if I recall. Leaky seals seem to be common on these too. Overall, though, it was a good car, and I moved on to a 2011 Legacy, which is a bit bigger, and more problematic. I like the handling of the 2003 better. Good luck finding one that's not driven to the moon and back and is still in decent shape.