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Old 06-14-2012, 12:25 AM   #1
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Help me find a fun daily for $3000 or less SOCAL

Just recently moved back to CA and I'm in need of a new daily. I want something that's fun to drive, reasonably economical, and reliable. Oh and most importantly it has to stick to my budget of $3000. I live in LA but I'm willin to drive up to 8 hours away to find something clean.

Just to cap things off the challenge is as follows:

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1)fun to drive
2)reliable
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4)$3000 budget

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Old 06-14-2012, 01:07 AM   #2
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Acura Integra might satisfied all of your requirement although #1 is very subjective
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Geo Prizm, im pretty sure you can swap a 4ag into it
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look into a miata
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Get a V6 MX3, 5spd.

They're fairly fun, pretty reliable, they sound amazing, have a big spacious hatch, and they're fairly uncommon.

With the right exhaust it sounds like an Alfa V6.
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Acura Integra might satisfied all of your requirement although #1 is very subjective
yea you can Acura Integra for that price and a lot of them here...
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Old 06-15-2012, 12:13 PM   #10
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OP, I will agree with a few guys here, Miata are small fun boxes. lol

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Geo Prizm, im pretty sure you can swap a 4ag into it

I actually owned a Geo Prizm with a 4age Blacktop. Very fun.. then 240 happened... :/
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My vote is miata as well.
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Just recently moved back to CA and I'm in need of a new daily. I want something that's fun to drive, reasonably economical, and reliable. Oh and most importantly it has to stick to my budget of $3000. I live in LA but I'm willin to drive up to 8 hours away to find something clean.

Just to cap things off the challenge is as follows:

Daily Driver
1)fun to drive
2)reliable
3)economical
4)$3000 budget

Thanks in advance
I'm in the same boat, except I'm going back to Scandinavia in the Fall and I have to recommend a Mitsubishi Montero as it satisfies all criteria, provided you're not an idiot with the throttle. (Ideally a cheap 2nd Gen with a bad ecu, as I happen to have one for sale.)

I sold mine when I left 1.5 year ago for 600 without an ecu, it was a great truck and the 4x4 helped pull the S13 a few times. I regularly drove from S. OC to N. Hollywood with 19-21 MPG in 2wd. I was astonished by its reliability until the last week when the ECU gave out and left me walking until the day I left.

Chicks dig them, too--none of them could stop talking about 'how cute I look in my Tonka.' I managed to fit 10 of my gf's drunk guests in mine after her sisters hen-party from N. Hollywood to Malibu without much of a change in acceleration with it in OD. Its like a Range Rover... except it runs and isn't solely confined to being an endless money pit that leaks oil all over your drive way.

If I could change anything, it would be to hold out for a with a manual box 4x4, my auto was a pain in the ass to drive since all I had were manuals all my life. Down-shifts on hills seemed like more of a bewildered request rather than a modulated certainty.

Still I miss my 'tonka,' these days. I saw a few imported Shoguns and Pajeros ripping it up in Oslo my first winter--not my thing, but one was getting opposite lock in a smaller EVO.
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Old 06-19-2012, 08:40 AM   #16
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Just recently moved back to CA and I'm in need of a new daily. I want something that's fun to drive, reasonably economical, and reliable. Oh and most importantly it has to stick to my budget of $3000. I live in LA but I'm willin to drive up to 8 hours away to find something clean.

Just to cap things off the challenge is as follows:

Daily Driver
1)fun to drive
2)reliable
3)economical
4)$3000 budget

Thanks in advance
I'd go with an Integra for reliability over all other things.

On a side note, Manhattan Beach is amazing. I regret moving away from there every day of my life.
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