New car, choices...

and when you’re done with the lease you realize you’ve just lost $181 * (# of months) money away. it’s like having a car payment your entire life.

and yeh…i would agree with most other people here. a used tsx or is300 would be nice. if you’re looking for awd you could pick up a wrx. for a little bit more class look at a caddy cts.

With Driver’s Option (available in most states†) you choose how long you want the VW, pay your scheduled monthly payments, then you’ve got three options:

• One: Pay off the balance of what the VW’s worth and keep it.
• Two: Refinance the balance of the VW’s worth.

That’s what I was referring to with the lease.
I have been interested in used WRX’s whoever brought that up, I have heard nothing but good things about subaru’s…

Oh and again, I’m certainly not looking to mod the shit out of something…

I cannot believe more people haven’t said it…WRX. Perfect for what you are looking for. Sporty but practical, for $1000 it makes way more reliable power and is perfect. Drive it year round without a care in the world.
My wife drives a TSX. Its nice, but its a dog. She loves it, but there is no chance I would buy one for myself.

wrx already was said…check two posts up from yours (mine). i’m sure someone else mentioned it before that as well.

06-07 Subaru Impreza? 05-07 WRX? Either one of those with 50k or less should bring into your price range.

just throwing this out there…

V6 altima SE …IMO a good all around car

The WRX has been of quite high interest to me, as I said I don’t want to have to mod the shit out of it to be fun, and being that it already comes turbo, AWD, and very reliable it’s quite a candidate for this…I mean I’m coming from a 2.slow Jetta, it will be a lot more fun for sure…

Anyone know how many miles WRX/other subaru’s can last with good maintenance?

STI

07 Legacy 2.5i isn’t too bad either, nice low miles for under 15K even…

What about a used 325i. Hell you could even find an older M3 in that range.

Insurance would slaughter me on those.

I don’t think it would be any more than a TSX/WRX/alphabet soup.