Hey, a friend of ours bought a 323 a couple months ago, I think it's a 2000 since I don't see they were made in 2001. Anyway, it's got 80,000 miles on it and they said the automatic transmission is shot. What transmission is this? Did these models have early transmission failure problems? I wish I had more detail but I'm getting the information 2nd hand. Anybody got info on this? thanks