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[cazwrx187]

@Vovchandr

You would try to drive anything in the winter, but expect to either get another set of wheels with winters on them, or buy winters for the wheels the car will have already on it. Unfortunately in most cases, the wheels already on it will be somewhat big(er) so the winters will cost more.

I’m not sure how many miles the WRX had, but generally speaking it was a never car, so at least it wouldn’t have had many wear and tear maintenance issues associated with age.

Any generation Rx7 is out of the question on at least reliability standpoint.
AE86 - 20 year old vehicle is a project car, not a DD.
M3 new ones are out of price range older ones you really would drive through the winter? Reliability may generally be there, but using an older performance car as DD and putting miles on it year around will make you learn the prices of up keeping an older German performance car. You’re not going to Autozone for parts for this.
S2000 is almost plausible for the price range but fits in most criteria.
350z could be found.

Also consider Rsx, Celica, MrS, Civic Si, Miata, Is300.

Not to be a dick, but you are seriously raining on my parade right now. :rofl

I kept the studded snows from the wrx for a reason…
The wrx had 85k on it and the tranny made some wierd ass rattling noise in 2nd and 3rd sometimes.
The rotary engine in a RX7 doesn’t take a long time to rebuild at all. If I got one, the first thing on my agenda would be to fix the cooling issues they all have.
If I found a clean AE86 it would be perfect. I’ve missed out on 3 extremely clean swapped ones already I wouldn’t mind fixing a few things here and there if they had issues. The engines/drivetrain are hella reliable.
Why wouldn’t anyone drive a mid 90’s e36 m3 through the winter? It’s a luxury car designed to function in all seasons. Yes parts aren’t cheap and I’m definitely keeping that in mind. M3 may be too heavy as well.
I’ve found a few s2000’s in my price range but the fact you can’t put a rack on a hard top is killing me.
I’ve been doing more research on 350z’s and they may be too heavy for my liking, just like the M3.