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I'm basically growing out of my training wheels, so I need to get more expensive training wheels in the form of a used car I can put a few dozen thousand miles on. This is the first car I'll be buying personally, so I'd like to just buy it outright with the cash I have available and draw from my appreciation of getting dirty to keep it in good driving shape. Proposed Budget: $4.5 - 6k New or Used: Used and probably old. Body Style: Convertible How will you be using the car?: 40 mile commute. Gizmos?: I have a smart phone, I'll live if my car doesn't have an in-dash GPS. What aspects are most important to you?: Manual/convertible/reliable. After that, it needs to be able to handle some snow if I put the right tires on it, I'm hoping for decent MPG (shooting for 30-35), and I really don't want to drive something that looks like it was made to go to the salon and back after church. So at first I thought I'd pick up a Miata second hand, but they can't handle any weather, have awful gas mileage, and I'm going to need room for a passenger and a non-lap dog. So then I started looking at Saabs, and I'm quickly learning that Classic Saab 900's are priced for collectors, the NG's are worse engineering, and that I don't know enough about 9-3's and 9-5's to really look into them. Basically, I need me a solid car with a top that can come off, and if it requires a little hunting for a barn find, then I'm game. Pythagoras a trois fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Jun 25, 2012 |
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