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FerrariKiller · 01-22-2004, 12:56 AM

If you want a cheap car with lots of available after market parts, that's cheap to insure, and are able to suck up your pride a little: a neon is the best choice. Dirt cheap with the ability to provide some decent power, and no one would suspect (including the insurance company) how much of a punch it could pack. It's not pretty or sexy but with modification it can move.

tabh · 01-22-2004, 01:05 AM

a mark VII would be the shit
if you can get that you should
luxury and power

hemi_fan · 01-22-2004, 04:40 PM

I saw an Audi with Quatro AWD for under 5k, not sure what model, im gunna go check now. ALso there was a Caprice Limo that was $4k, I was joking around with my friends saying I was gunna buy that. lol

Edit: 90 or a 91 Audi Coupe Quattro

TeflonTron · 01-23-2004, 04:28 AM

If it's your very first car then I'd suggest going for the cheapest, oldest hunk of junk you can find. A fast/powerful car at such an early stage in your driving career is not a good thing, imo.

cho_888 · 01-23-2004, 05:33 AM

5.0L Stang - good mussel car, what will it be like in 5 years time
Supra - fast reliable, a bit rice?
RX7 - perefct but a mazda
240SX - quick and well built
MR2 - dont bother it is gut less with a wrong gear box
Camaro - dont know mucha bout em
Trans-Am likewise
BMW 318/320/325 - quality need i say more if so calss
Porsche 924/944 - go the porsche only you need to keep it dam cleen and new looking for it to be a porsche
Eagle Talon TSI - mmm
Thunderbird - how old, but my friend has a old convertable one, nice
Lincoln mark VII -??
Olds Cutlas/Buick Regal ?
Caddilac STS ? :x
Monte Carlo ?

Caprice/Crown Vic

ops:
Miata :shock:
or Other

Kangaroo Boy · 01-23-2004, 10:45 AM

Datsun 510 bluebird

hemi_fan · 01-23-2004, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by dani_d_mas

small, light, powerful, funny... a renault 5 gt turbo, 120 bhp, 800 kilos...

No renaults on this continent bud... or at least not in high numbers.

coloradosilver · 01-23-2004, 04:17 PM

I still say V6 F-body or Z28

zevolv · 01-23-2004, 04:19 PM

never buy a V6 mustang! EVER!!!!

:fist: :fist: :fist:

BACR · 01-23-2004, 04:28 PM

BMW 325 or a Porsche 944 S2 Turbo

hemi_fan · 01-23-2004, 04:33 PM

Yeh, i wouldnt get a V6 stang or maro. It just ruins the entire car IMO. it wasnt really meant to have that engine. If I got a mustang, it would deffinitely be a 5.0. I dont even think i'd get a camaro with a 305 in it... The Problem with the Porsches and BMWs is believe it or not, their insurrance is even more expensive than the mustang's. Thats deffinitely out of affordable range.

zevolv · 01-23-2004, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by hemi_fan

Yeh, i wouldnt get a V6 stang or maro. It just ruins the entire car IMO. it wasnt really meant to have that engine. If I got a mustang, it would deffinitely be a 5.0. I dont even think i'd get a camaro with a 305 in it... The Problem with the Porsches and BMWs is believe it or not, their insurrance is even more expensive than the mustang's. Thats deffinitely out of affordable range.

Actually the first Mustangs only had V6s and the Camaro has a 351 not 305. And the old 5.0 is actually worse than the 4.6 a new 5.0 crate engine is very good though.

Apac102 · 01-23-2004, 04:42 PM

I wonder if you could get an old M3 for that much? If you could, that would be a blast and that should definitely be your choice. But I don't know what an old M3 would cost.

racer_f50 · 01-23-2004, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by FerrariKiller

If you want a cheap car with lots of available after market parts, that's cheap to insure, and are able to suck up your pride a little: a neon is the best choice. Dirt cheap with the ability to provide some decent power, and no one would suspect (including the insurance company) how much of a punch it could pack. It's not pretty or sexy but with modification it can move.

they're dirt cheap because they're not good cars. every single person i've talked to says Neons are very unreliable cars. and apparenlty the way Dodge (or chrysler if you're weird) mounted the engine makes it tough to work on too.

also, his "requirements" list menitoned that the car must be RWD. Neons are Front drive.

but i have driven in one, and despite the feeling of a slightly jittery chassis, it was kinda fun for the test drive. just wish it had been a manual...

hemi_fan · 01-25-2004, 02:10 PM

Why would you choose the miata over the others? It was probably at the bottom of my list... And as for the V6 stangs/maros go, in the year-range im looking for, the stangs dont even have a V6 option, only 4cyl. and from what I hear the 4cyl is AMSOLUTELY TERRIBLE. its unreliable, no power, bad mileage... nothing going for it. The maros have V6s from that generation, but I still dont really like them. I made a chart of insurrance quotes I got off a web-site. Im pretty sure they arent accurate, but it sorta shows which cars are more expensive or not. I'll post it soon.