Fastest Car Possible For $10,000?

Case R

I like mainly sports car but m also thinking about a Ford SVT Lightning

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Early 90s LT1-powered Corvette C4 or early 90s Nissan 300ZX with the twin turbo

First car suggestions, need help?

Pawletoe

ok not really. I have a jeep liberty but i dont consider mine it i haz thee pink slip! >=l

this is what I am looking for in a car:
-coupe(sedan if cheaper)
-manuel
-modifiable

The no-nos in my next car:
-v8
-4wd/awd(*sigh* bye Subaru *cries*)

I want to learn drifting in this car. I will probably take it out to the tracks for my first time as well (once most mods are completed). Besides that, your everyday average driving car.

Budget:less than 10k, The cheaper the better.
oh cmon rouge. don't give that you old hag.
I said THE CHEAPER THE BETTER. I'm NOT looking for a NEW car. I love the Cobalt but I need something cheaper. Screw the economy, I need to get from point A to point B so I can work. All american my ass. American automakers laughed at japan for not much muscle. Now who is laughing?

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There are actually quite a few cheap and sporty coupes and sports cars that could meet your needs. Here are my personal short list of RWD cars for an aspiring racer or drifter which you can still live with.

Nissan 240 - universal drift car of choice. It's cheap, practical, and easily modified. The only downside is every other drifter will have one too.
BMW 325is - the E30 and E36 generations (80s-90s) offer a good blend of performance and (relative) affordability.
Volvo 242 Turbo - slightly oddball choice, but Volvo's old rwd coupes can make a surprising amount of power
Mazda Miata - great handling and fun, but low power (when stock) and practicality
Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro - cheap and unrefined power, but the ones you want obviously don't meet your no-V8 criteria

I personally have a 1990 Mazda Miata that I race in autocrosses regularly. Though not very powerful in stock form, the balance and predictability of its handling makes it very controllable in slides. I also drove it rain, snow, or shine for years without any real problems.

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What are some inexpensive sports cars?

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Nicole

I would like to make a list of inexpensive sports cars (aka cars that look expensive but aren't really)
Thanx!
P.S. I am not looking to buy one of these cars and i would like them fairly new please :P

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1. Toyota MR2: They are relatively cheap but look a lot more expensive than they really are. Modern ones go for about $8,000 to $15,000.

2. 2002-2005 Ford Thunderbird: Not really a sports car, but it is a car that looks very expensive and has come down in price considerably. Originally they were $45,000 to $50,000, but can now be had for about $15,000 to 20,000, sometimes less.

3. '90s Mercedes 300SL, 500SL, and 600SL: these cars ranged from $60,000 to over $100,000 but incredibly today some have now gone below $10,000. Good condition 500SL and 600SL will still cost a lot,but a 300SL looks pretty much the same and can cost less than a used Civic.

4. Mazda Miata: It doesn't really look expensive but some of the early "90s models can be had for less than a few grand. So for about $2500 you can have a reliable, fun, little convertible that is very cheap to maintain.

what is a good 90s sports car thats affordable?

shoe m

i have a 91 ford ranger right now and me and my mom are looking to sell that and get a new car. i was thinking about the 95-04 mustang but i dont really like the gas mileage, any help?

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As far as cars in the 90s that are cheap but sporty only a mustang or a camaro. I know that you can sometimes find the camaros for extra cheap without too many problems.

Gas mileage is bad across the board to be honest, but the post 2000 mustangs are very nice and reliable cars. My cousins all own mustangs from that era (5 of them all with 1998-2004 mustang convertibles) and they do not have problems.

Again both the mustang and camaros are cheaper than many cars.

You can always just go for a lighter little sporty hatchback, what way you will have space like you are used to, but you will have more fun driving and get better mileage. I drive a toyota matrix xr and it is pretty fun considering.

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What is the real difference between a car and a SUV ?

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cocovan

I have heard SUV's are built using a truck chasis, while cars have a car chasis. Not sure what the difference is...

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The difference is whether a vehicle uses a body-on-frame design ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body-on-frame ), or a unibody design ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocoque ).

In a body-on-frame vehicle, most of the structural strength of the car comes (usually) from two metal rails welded together with cross-members. This is called a "ladder-frame." The body is built separately and then laid on the frame. Almost all pickup trucks and commercial trucks ever made use this design, because it offers far greater overall strength, and allows the vehicle to flex a bit. These are desirable traits in a vehicle designed to haul cargo. Also, until about the 1970s, most cars also used this design, due to the ease of placing different bodies on the same chassis.

Unibodies, also called monocoques, are a concept originally from aircraft. In a unibody, the body of the car provides all structural strength, and there is no frame holding the car together. There may be "sub frames," small frames holding together suspension and drivetrain components, but these do not give any structural support to the passenger compartment or body panels. A unibody doesn't imply that EVERY body panel is a structural member (bumpers and front fenders usually aren't....the roof and the rear quarter panels usually are), just that there is no frame. Almost every sedan, station wagon, coupe, and hatchback made in the last 30 years uses a unibody. The only exceptions in the last 15 years or so (in North America and Japan anyway) have been the Ford Panther platform cars (like the Crown Victoria, which you probably know from its use as police cars and taxis) and some sports cars which use unusual body types like a spine (some TVRs used this), or tube frames (like in NASCAR).

An SUV used to be a truck with a fully enclosed (or enclosable as in a Jeep Wrangler) passenger/cargo compartment, and usually more than just the front seats. Prior to the Jeep Cherokee XJ, I believe all SUVs WERE on truck frames. Since then there has always been the occasional unibody SUV.

When SUVs replaced station wagons and minivans in terms of popularity in the 90s, due to people being total poseurs who want to look like they're driving something TOUGH AND RUGGED, with capabilities they never use, and because they view a minivan or wagon as a sign that they aren't cool anymore because they've given their lives over to practicality and family....despite the fact that mommy trading her Family Truckster in for an Explorer transfers the uncoolness of the wagon to the SUV... Anyhow, SUVs have gotten more and more car-like. The start of that process was SUVs based on the same platforms as popular cars (the CR-V based on the Civic, the RAV-4 based on the Corolla and such.

What would the selling price be for a 90s ford contour?

Hails

It has about 40,000 miles on it. There's nothing wrong with it. It runs great! Just want to know how much it would sell for on craiglist or somewhere else I can sell it

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There was nothing inherently wrong with the Ford Contour, aka the Ford Mondeo... but they tend to have pretty abysmal resale values. Somewhere between 1992 and 2000, Ford decided Quality was "Job 2" where cars were concerned. The Contour was a rush job to market because it would have cost too much to re-engineer the ten-year-old Tempo platform. And sales stunk.

I have not seen a Contour or a Mercury Mystique (its platform twin) in years that has not been run ragged, so even if you've kept yours in peak condition, you'll be lucky to get $2k for it. It's considered basic transportation, even if it does have only 40,000 miles. If you have a Contour SVT, with the sports handling package and the 24-valve V6 engine, that is a rarer car and I might tack on an extra $500 to it.

If you want to sell it quick, price it at $2000 OBO, and put up a flyer at your local high school's community bulletin board. Parents like low-mileage midsize sedans for their kids, and the Contour would be a more luxurious alternative to an old Escort or Civic.

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