I feel like this is one of those easy questions where the answer is a Volvo. They’re cool, reliable, safe, respectable looking, enough power to be fun, and you maybe you have to look back to maybe 2011 for them, but can easily be had under $10k. Hell, in the UK you can get a 2010 V60 manual for like 4,000 - 5,000 GBP,…