I paid about that much for the same car back in 1997. While it did serve me well, and was surprisingly fun to drive, it was a colossal piece of shit. The interior is a shrine to plastics, the ECU fried every time it rained, and those door handles had a tendency to snap like a battered housewife whose not gonna take it…
Which was copied from AMC.
My commuter is a 2010 MS3. While not the greatest on mileage it does offer some good daily driving fun.
According to our chart, it's a dump truck. http://jalopnik.com/5943081/this-h…
Nothing like something like this make you feel like you've wasted your life.