As is the case of nearly all 20+ year old affordable sports cars (regardless of make), most you see for sale are beaten to death or riced to hell. Nearly all cars under this category (yes even the holy Miata) are likely to be extremely unreliable given the lack of proper maintenance, not just 'turd' gens.
Except most cars don't gain a reputation or name for being a pile of crap. Miatas have a reputation of a fun, reliable, cheap car. A 3rd generation Camaro does not.
LT1's are GREAT first cars. Cheap, reliable if you can find an unmolested one, plenty of power but not too much to get you in trouble, vast aftermarket part availability and better MPG than an M3 of the same era.
Congratulations on parroting what I said, then.
So he wants a unique, fun, practical American car as his first car.... what an outrageous demand
Try re-reading what I quoted because asking for an American car wasn't the point of it. It's creating a list of desires for a first car & not wanting to dump money into it, immediately followed by a statement he would rather take an unreliable American car over a reliable Japanese one. Don't set requirements for people to offer suggestions with if you're going to ignore it because you think the car is ugly.
I did and one year later I'm even more sure of my decision. Might come as a surprise to a know-it-all 10 year veteran of GTPlanet, but not all teenagers are ignorant, stupid kids that drive around with their foot buried in the loud pedal. Those of us that do our research, save enough money and drive responsibly, completely deserve to own and drive whatever car we want.
Do you want to know why teenagers are all subjected to the thought of ignorant & stupid? Because of things like this showing you have a lack of reading comprehension that's carried over from the last thread.
I am not questioning whether or not teenagers should have a sports car; that's for another thread. I am pointing out that you don't come into this forum asking for first car advice, and then ignore the best advice given because it's not the car you want. You prove you're not really after first car advice, you just list what you want & hope we will stand behind it. @
peobryant didn't because he made a sensible choice based on what the OP was looking for. If this kid had really wanted us to help him pick a cheap, American sports car as a first car, he should have just said that. There would still be a few who advice against it, but you would have more grounds to play your silly victim card that, "Not all teens are bad drivers".
Lastly, you seem to forget the debate you had with one of the mods that showed statistically, the majority of teenagers do not deserve to drive and own whatever they want. For however responsible you say you are, there are 9 other teenagers who aren't that validates people's first thoughts to doubt teenagers altogether.
Dream cars? Yes because, Fox Fairmonts, Mavericks, and Camaros are dreams cars when none of them make hardly more power than your modern Corolla.
And here comes Slash posting his usual ignorance.
Sorry to break this to you & your unhealthy obsession with V8s & lots of power, but not everyone's dream car revolves around that. A dream car does not have to instantly mean 6-figure car, either. When I was younger, my dream car to own was an E36 M3 because in my mind, it was the closest one I could think of affording. It was my ideal first car.
I don't want to have to put money into restoration, like a bunch of rust repair (I understand it will probably require some), or completely rebuilding the engine. A few $100 repairs are fine with me. Still, no Japanese cars for me, EVER.
An unreliable car is going to be more than a few $100s in repairs to have the term, unreliable tied to it. What you described is routine maintenance costs you are hopefully accounting for in your decision.
If you don't want a Japanese car, that's fine, but understand what you're looking for in a first car is going to be noticeably trickier to find. They aren't first recommendations for giggles. They're cheap and reliable which is what most people would like out of a first car on a tight budget.
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