sickmx3

My question to you... The TSR community is... Help me find a daily commuter that wont let me down... I recently got a nice pay raise, and My company is expanding and moving to near markham. My question is, if you had to choose a very gas efficient car, but something that has some power, still fun to drive, and to mod up... I already have a tricked out mx3... that has the j-spec swap and she guzzles gas, so daily driving her is out of the question... I need a good reliable car, that isn't going to cost me much... My budget is Max of 10-15 grand ideally... If it's something I can finance, even better....

I test drove a mazda 3... Fantastic ride... Good price @ 17 grand brand new... But with my parents consult and me only being 20... The insurance on two cars that are both expensive would just kil me in the end.. not really worth it...


SO!!!! My question, What do I do? Buy a EK civic and b18c5 it?? Or buy a new car?? Or what? I need suggestions, I need to get at least 600k+ to the tank, if this is possible, of course on daily commutes I wont be raping the car


YOUR OPINION IS VALUED, AND I THANK YOU ALL

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nick

i say that you just get a civic and not do anything to it, and just use it as your daily driver. and mod the out of ur mx3.

im in the same boat as you so i know how u feel.

sickmx3

i know it sucks

Viperoni

What you need to do is move closer to work
Otherwise... Suzuki Swift

sickmx3

lol, ewwwwwwwwwwwww

suzuki swift, nevarrrrrrrrrrrr

what about a jetta tdi

drifter420

I saw that commercial that Saturn had out for one of their car that supposedly gets 30city MPG and it's probably the ecotec engine cause they said it was 140 HP.

If you want more oomph then that..

Impala with 3.4L
They were rated best efficient full size sedan.. so you know you'll have oomph and MPG..


EDIT: Wow.. I thought I had it bad to and from work I"m roughly bout 140 KM both ways per day..

wes

go buy a smart car :thumbsup

NOTORIOUS VR

T D I all the way.... chip it, exhaust... if u want throw in some lowering springs and some bigger rims/tires, and u'll have fun, comfortable daily driver that get's u approx. 1000 km's per tank.

Can't beat that...

goneinsixtyseconds

with a budget of 10-15 grand, why don't you just buy a decent used car? like a civic or something? it'll give you great gas milege and if you don't care about how it looks or performs (just a daily driver) than what does it matter? besides, you have a modified 2nd car anyways, so why waste any more money on modding your daily driver? just save that money and put it towards your 2nd car. also, insurance for a civic would be one of the lowest, just make sure you don't get a SIR or whatever, just get the base base model and you'll be fine

midnighter

"also, insurance for a civic would be one of the lowest"

Insurance is expensive on Civics no matter what model they are, so I'd advise against them simply due to their insurance rate. Cast my vote in for the TDI as well..

skillton

:thumbsup

goneinsixtyseconds

i wouldn't say that's true, insurance companies look at the trim level (including engine size/type), risk (of car being stolen) and obviously the driver history when calculating insurance rates. so for example, a base level civic compared to an accord ex-v6 or a type-s rsx will obviously have lower rates. i'm not too sure about rates of insurance of base level domestics, but like i said, i figure the civic would be one of the lowest compared to other models out there

miked

for me.. for 2 cars... both older then 1990 they wanted over 7grand..

if u can.. why not move up there 240 is alot for work... the money you would save in gas alone over a year is a decent chuck.

tilf_hunter

TDI - mines been fine and I love the fuel economy!!

Although not fast - but I've yet to get it chipped and exhaust....

TurboSupra12

What company makes chip/exhaust for a 2000 Jetta TDI?