We got a truck today, Silverado Single Cab. Enough leg and head room, comfortable seats, radio, A/C, and automatic, it's brand new 2006, and I'll be paying 210 a month for it, plus another 100 for insurance, but that's right in our price range.

Thanks for the suggestions, Morgan. *bums his way over to carsoup*.

Yeah, I've never really gotten into anything fast. Fastest I've gone is sixty on my dirtbike, and ... one oh five in my Lumina. I think the Lumina is about nine seconds for a zero-sixty sprint.

Not a dragster.

edit: OH OH I once hit eighty on my snomobile. And that sucker's older than I am.

Heh, I've gone over 140 in a friend's Firebird Trans Am, and bumped against the 115mph limiter in the 240SX for a few minutes driving to a rallycross event south of Orlando. The fastest accellerating car I've been in was probably Marcus's (DarthTurbogeek's) rally prepared Mitsubishi Galant VR-4. It had boost leaks at the time but when the turbo spooled dear almighty did it scoot like a terrified cheeta. One second it's a normal stripped out car with a cage and DEAR GOD HERE COMES THE SCENERY.

The cars I reccomended aren't really fast in a straight line, but they're all excellent cars and they all handle really well along with getting decent fuel economy. That was sort of what I was under the impression you wanted. If you link me whatever you come up with I can probably tell you which issues to look out for in that specific model.

Carsoup spit this out at me for the Nissan. It's uh, only got a 2.4l. I know most power isn't just from the engine, the transmission ratios and whatnot are quite important, but that seems small to me.

I ran into a few BMD 3 series', my gosh it's those ugly things. My sister wants one because it looks cool, she says. It certainly screams 80's

I can't see any of your links, it just drops me into the "pick a region" page. :(
Try Autotrader, too.

The 240SX has a 6500RPM redline. First tops out at 30, 2nd winds just barely to 60 if you overrev slightly. Etc. 0-60 is about 8 seconds. The 2.4 liter inline 4 isn't going to win any awards but it's highly durable and puts out up to 155hp and 160 ft-lbs of torque, which is enough to move a car that only weighs 2600 (coupe) or 2680 (hatch) well enough.

The 3 series probably screams 80s because I think it was designed in 85 or so.

"Power" isn't everything. A Lotus Elise will spank everything short of an early 00s Corvette Z06. It "only" has 180hp. It also weighs 2000 lbs.

Autotrader has something similar to what carsoup had here, Carsoup's 240SX was a hatchback though. I'm not too keen on a cloth covered convertable -- Minnesota winters are friggen' cold. But just to get a general idea...

But that 3 series, peppy little thing, yes? Some of the newer ones look a little more Euro than they do 80's, which isn't bad. If it's got a set of legs and came in a dark colour, black for instance I could be partial.

*googles Lotus Elise*





*profanity*

That's an E36 (1992+). I was reccommending the E30 (80s model) because it would be in your budget. The 240SX convertibles are pretty rare but I deffinately would not get one in a winter state. They're also nowhere near as stiff as the coupe or hatch, which is a bad thing. The BMW 318 in the E36 chassis is completely gutless. Only look at a 325 or better.