If you can drive a manual, and are willing to buy used, the best deal right now is a Fiat 500 Abarth.

The Maverick XL with AWD in Area 51 blue I just ordered for $28k

Mitsubishi Mirage. Cheap wheels, with a decent set of options. It’ll get you to your place of employment pretty much all winter long. 

You have to go cheaper. Versa S.

Kids: Mom, can we have WRX STI?

In my head I can hear one coming down the street when I was a kid with multiple holes in the exhaust, rear end sagging, and rust falling off of it.

It took me years to realize it, but Old Country Buffet was never about the food.

Looks like Lambo is at fault:

Worst comment of the day.

It came with the 1.4L turbo that was the basis for the Abarth, so a performance variant could have been in the cards, but probably got killed for business reasons.

CR-Z

Listen here, kid. I’m gonna need you to grab that feeler gauge over there and set the points gap while I drain the rear diff.

The Stout Scarab. Not only the world’s first minivan (almost half a century before the Caravan), but it also had a revolutionary cab-forward design without running boards and big fenders. The whole thing was an unheard of concept for 1936.

I know Craig Liberman used this car because he had it on hand and was modified

Allegedly it was even hidden inside of a stage coach in The Quick And The Dead.

Man, I gotta subscribe because I have the BEST answer and I totally missed this.  Pool cleaner. I fought traffic and cleaned pools 6 days a week for about 14k a year in Ft. Lauderdale in 1991-1992.  Fighting traffic in a rusted, non-maintained S-10, humping 50 lbs of equipment to 30 pools a day, scrubbing, breathing…

Even at their worst, each of the wachowski sisters is damn talented and make memorable movies. Even if this sucks, it’ll still be worth seeing.

The Black album was a fucking travesty.  The almighty kings of thrash put on godamned eyeliner and literally ruined my childhood.  Fuck this project.  Fuck Metallica.  Sellout bitches.

There is an entire spectrum of modified exhausts. If you’re just mad at those who sacrifice tone for volume, I would agree with you. If you’re mad at anyone who changes anything from the factory setup, then you can rightfully piss off and yell at the clouds elsewhere.

Being a 4th generation Colorado kid has shown me that for some reason we get all of the worst drivers from all over the country coming to recreate, and getting their first taste of snow driving on interstate 70 with a family of four, faces frozen in terror, as they careen towards the ditch doing a perfect 1080 to rest…