ATH

But, I'll get something fun again in the future. Car pulls hards, turns heads, and handles very well. Actually got the rear out on a tight turn, even though the road was so dry.

Thinking of either buying a beater car for $5k for the next year, or leasing something cheap like a Volvo S40 or a Mini. The beater car makes more sense, but for that much money it's basically luck on whether the car would be reliable or not (would have to be really high mileage).

inliner311

what kind of beaters are you thinking about getting?

cjk

Good luck with the sale- your car is an inspiration to me for the future of my S4!!

And- yes, like your ad states- one of the nicest S4's in the country!!

ATH

I really should defer all car fun for a year and just get something like an accord, but I just can't do that .

The thing is, an acceptable beater will be around $6k, so for that much I might as well lease something decent like an S40, since in a few years $6K won't really matter (it's not like I won't be able to buy a house because of that amount or something).

X - 1 _ r a c e r

I've owned a few cars before this, some had their qualities, but this car is still dope. You go spending $20k on an E36 M3 and you'll only discover what I did driving a friend's; nice car, but no S4. Now the E30 M3 would be great, it's not trying to be a performance luxury sedan and doesn't have the same compromises. If you could find one that hasn't been tracked to death and isn't selling for $15k it would make a great car.
But I still have to say, get a beater until you can come back to us or get a Porsche. Good luck.

inliner311

you should look into a older Lexus SC300 with a 5-speed....there fun and have mod possiblity

PSmalls::DoggieStyle

I ask because I had a really funny/strange experience yesterday. I took the 996tt out for the first time since Jacob, Donnie, Dmitri, etc were in town a couple months back. It hadn't moved since then so the battery was almost dead, had to charge her up. Anyway, this guy in a grand prix kept following me like we were driving together. At lights, he would floor it off the line and the tires would squeal. At first, I thought it was funny. It got old real quick.

-M3=Lunch-

then buy your porsche turbo or 997 CS or if your lucky gt2 in a couple years.

ATH

I guess I need to go test drive an S40 or a Mini and see if I'd even see myself in one. I can accept that nothing will have the power of my S4, but frankly it might be nice to have something I can just plow over potholes without cringing and swerving every which way .

By the way did you ever get your fueling figured out?

ATH

I don't like driving other people's cars - makes me nervous if anything ever happened...