Here you go. Perfect first car for a teenager. In your backyard!
Here you go. Perfect first car for a teenager. In your backyard!
95 Buick Riviera. Supercharged 3800. Not bad on gas. 225 hp. Rides like a cloud. The most comfortable seats you ever sat in. The back seat is most welcoming. Get the black one. Your pimp status will go up 75%.
As most of you guessed I had one of these in my younger days.
In reply to Vigo:
They're glorious unicorns
I'm just amused at the budget. $8-10k for a first car? How many forum members have entire fleets that cost less? 
Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: In reply to NoPermitNeeded: Oh well, I had to try. I still am surprised, many many years later, that my parents let me get a 64 Spitfire as my first car. It was in 1989 and on the way to pick it up my dad mentioned that he had never bought a car that was older then he was. If I were you I would look at some of the "Hot Hatch" cars from the 80's 90's, but I have had an Alfa, a Spitfire and a slew of SAABs so I am a little warped.
Last weekend I put 920 miles on my 91 900. Sure, the exhaust fell off, but it was $20 to get it stuck back together. It has 170k on it, and I would do it again this weekend.
Maybe you aren't hanging around the right chicks...
In reply to Brian:
8-10k is the money that we should be getting from selling what WAS going to be my car. '06 Honda Ridgeline; we've done the research, the insurance on that would be $150 a month, and its garbage on gas. It would be too expensive to keep. Long story short parents getting divorced, income essentially getting halved, need something that we don't have to really think about every time it needs an oil change; on an older car that's something I can do myself. I am in no way looking to spend that full amount of money. I'm just saying that's the max that we'll have on tap.
A Fiat 500. Ours has been dead reliable and has been a fun little car.
My first car was a volvo 240 wagon. You can have a lot of .... um ... fun in those cars. For something a little sportier, you can pick up an e36 BMW for $3k. The 325is isn't exactly fast but they are fun to drive, reasonably easy to work on, and pretty reliable as long as you don't mind electrics :)
V6 mustang or Camaro. Insurance is cheapish, cars themselves are dirt cheap. Easy to work on, cheap to fix, Available manual, respectable mpgs, and aftermarket (and V8 parts) list is huge.
In reply to jrubins:
A Volvo 240 or something like it is pretty high on the list.
It's funny you mention e36s because I'm working on refreshing the suspension on my grandma's 318is at this moment. Fun car, just has no beans. A 325 would be an enourmous step up in e36-land for me.
IS300 can be had in manual in that range
I would rather have an IS300 than any Non-M e36 and over any non-3.0 e46.
If you're stuck on a wagon. Mazda6 Wagon with the manual would be fun. You should be able to get the best example around for less than $8000. If it was me, I'd be looking for a V6 Accord Sedan with the manual. You might have to drive a ways to find one, but they're out there. Total sleepers, so mom and dad will approve.
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