What's a fast car for under 60k?

amnesiac

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Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: Tret
Friend wants to buy a car but he doesn't know what to get.

A Corvette :)

Not a big domestic fan but you really can't go wrong with a 'vette. One of the best bang/buck cars out there. And it's fast.

Or an M3.

 

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: amnesiac
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: Tret
Friend wants to buy a car but he doesn't know what to get.

A Corvette :)

Not a big domestic fan but you really can't go wrong with a 'vette. One of the best bang/buck cars out there. And it's fast.

Or an M3.
A better bang for the buck would be a newer Camaro SS or Firebird TA/Formula. These things are plenty fast and handle very well.
 

Vic

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Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: shady06
evolution, pocket the 25K
STi is faster ;)
only in a straight line, and only by .1 seconds
hence the ;)
and the "not straight line" issue has already been addressed time and again by simple alignment adjustments.

To be blunt, Subaru had problems with the 02 WRX's because buyers were thrashing the cars with its wonderfully controllable oversteer. So they re-aligned the car for understeer in 03 and after, including the STi. It's an easily correctable issue, but car review magazines (etc.) only use the factory settings.
 

freebee

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I like z06 also. I was going to get one, but my finances didnt pan out. Looking into the new s2k instead...its a little gay, but I'm ok with that.
 

PoPPeR

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Originally posted by: freebee
I like z06 also. I was going to get one, but my finances didnt pan out. Looking into the new s2k instead...its a little gay, but I'm ok with that.
um. S2k + gay in same sentence = die and rot in hell

 

freebee

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Originally posted by: PoPPeR
Originally posted by: freebee
I like z06 also. I was going to get one, but my finances didnt pan out. Looking into the new s2k instead...its a little gay, but I'm ok with that.
um. S2k + gay in same sentence = die and rot in hell

Well compared to the z06...the s2k is a little gay.But its gay in a good way....you know those guys that are so gorgeous even a straight man would be checking them out.
 

slikmunks

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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: shady06
evolution, pocket the 25K
STi is faster ;)
only in a straight line, and only by .1 seconds
hence the ;)
and the "not straight line" issue has already been addressed time and again by simple alignment adjustments.

To be blunt, Subaru had problems with the 02 WRX's because buyers were thrashing the cars with its wonderfully controllable oversteer. So they re-aligned the car for understeer in 03 and after, including the STi. It's an easily correctable issue, but car review magazines (etc.) only use the factory settings.

neither is THAT fast... and neither has THAT much modding potential (takes out half the fun)... but for 60k, i've seen a used 911 turbo... but that's seeing it at wholesale retail price from a dealership :)