If I'm going to blow the budget on something it has to be warrantied, and preferably new, so the payment on a new accord sport, while unpalatable, is not totally off the table. I guess if I bought a new car the E91 would sit idle more often, which is totally fine with me, as much as I'm already griping about what that fuckin' thing is costing me to maintain.
I'd be ok with a slower Civic Si, because, Scotty listening to your tales of hoonery just brings me back to ripping around in an ITR. The TSX is an interesting choice - my parents have an '07, although with an automatic, but it has all the fit/finish/smells/sounds of the 90's hondas and that always gives me the warm fuzzies in the feels. Its cheap, and more power is a head swawp and k-pro tune away. The price is right on both of those, plus honda reliability.
Goodspeed, how hard is it to find a nice condition, manual trans IS300? I had forgotten about those.
I'd be ok with a slower Civic Si, because, Scotty listening to your tales of hoonery just brings me back to ripping around in an ITR. The TSX is an interesting choice - my parents have an '07, although with an automatic, but it has all the fit/finish/smells/sounds of the 90's hondas and that always gives me the warm fuzzies in the feels. Its cheap, and more power is a head swawp and k-pro tune away. The price is right on both of those, plus honda reliability.
Goodspeed, how hard is it to find a nice condition, manual trans IS300? I had forgotten about those.