@MrTripps: Obligitory...

Stock transmission? Will a little blip of the throttle cause it to fold the transmission in half and crap it out like yesterday's $5 Mexican buffet?

Talk him down a grand. LeMons limo?

@doug-g: I hate to agree, but I have to. Most american 35+ family types go right down this path - they get the truckster with the intention of later towing the boat, camper, etc, but then never do. They just drive their suburbans to Wal-Mart and clog up the parking lots.

@aProfessional: Ha-Yugo-busa?

Wow. That's a lotta Ladas. *Rimshot*

Total NP. Buy it for a high-school / college kid. They'll drive it for 5 years. All the crap's already been beat out of it, so they really can't beat any more of the crap out of it. They can haul their stuff back and forth to campus. When they're ready to trade up, they'll still be able to get close to a grand…

@Blakkar: Someone in a Nissan ran over your puppy when you were a kid, didn't they? Fine, I concede. Wrong car. I was half-kidding about it anyway.

@FlyingUndeadSheep: Doc Brown WAS rich. He inherited his family's fortune. It was only when he invented the flux capacitor that he sunk everything into the pursuit of a time machine. Expensive(-ish) super(-ish) cars would fit just fine.

@Blakkar: Would something from TVR fit better? Maybe we'll have a time-traveling villain in the GT-R, and the hero in a TVR? Then they can, oh wait, I'd better stop giving Hollywood ideas. They'd eat that crap up.

@Blakkar: About 3/4 of the things you just said applied to the DMC12 in the (early) 80's. And, noone's going to cry when they run it over with a train at the end. :)

@tonyola: OK, if we must argue it, we can go with an old R32 or something, but, Doc Brown currently (in all but one of the time continuums presented) cruses around in a flying, time-traveling, steam-powered locomotive, so I don't think a GT-R is beyond his reach, financially.

Nissan GT-R. Same pseudo-futuristic look. About the same price (inflation-adjusted) as the Delorean in '85. Futuristic time-circuits would look at-home with all the other gadgets on the GT-R's dash. Both have 6 cylinder engines. New plot twists could involve the grenadeing the transmission sometime in the past, or…

@Spiegel Feliciano: Ha Ha Ha! Joke's on you-er-him. I already managed to breed.

I vote NP, but with the caveat that it has the 1.3 motor.

@craznoe: Yup. Like my Dad used to say: "driving in snow is like sneaking into the lion cages at the zoo: No Sudden Moves."

@ikaiyoo: Everyone has their own story. Here's mine:

Too much coin for a cheap convertible, even if it is reliable and clean.

Ejector Seats

@TroyQueef: Solution: