 Best beater/DD for $1000?, Opinions please! |
 Mar 3, 2012 - 3:09 PM
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My girlfriend is looking to buy a daily driver on a $1,000 budget. I figured I would post here to see if you guys had any good ideas of what to look for.
The only requirement is that the car is a 4 door and is fairly reliable. My initial idea was that a 90s Corolla would be perfect for her. Then I remembered that the Geo Prizm is basically the same car, but cheaper! So right now thats the main contender. Any other recommendations cheap cars? This post has been edited by lagos: Mar 3, 2012 - 3:19 PM -------------------- 15PSI - 30MPG - Megasquirt Tuned
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Mar 5, 2012 - 4:51 AM
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I owned a 91 prizm, I put over 150k miles on it, I used to take it hunting,
surprisingly good off road. haha It was a great car and the reason I am a toyota owner today. I grew up in a chevy family and would have remained loyal, but the prizm changed all that. I bought it thinking it was somehow affiliated with GM, once I learned it was all toyota I never looked back. The only problem I ever had was the waterpump went out at about 120k, my own fault. I did absolutly no scheduled maintence, just oil, and I changed the plugs once, when I sold it it had 150k on the original timing belt. It had an auto trans that was never serviced, and I never had a problem with it. -------------------- JDM guy made me do it.
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Mar 5, 2012 - 7:53 AM
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Enthusiast Joined May 29, '09 From Gainesville, FL Currently Offline Reputation: 17 (100%) |
QUOTE (97lestyousay @ Mar 5, 2012 - 4:51 AM)  I owned a 91 prizm, I put over 150k miles on it, I used to take it hunting, surprisingly good off road. haha It was a great car and the reason I am a toyota owner today. I grew up in a chevy family and would have remained loyal, but the prizm changed all that. I bought it thinking it was somehow affiliated with GM, once I learned it was all toyota I never looked back. The only problem I ever had was the waterpump went out at about 120k, my own fault. I did absolutly no scheduled maintence, just oil, and I changed the plugs once, when I sold it it had 150k on the original timing belt. It had an auto trans that was never serviced, and I never had a problem with it. Lol I had a 96 prism back in the day, how simliar it was to my ST was quite amusing, but yes I never had issues with that car and I beat the hell out of it, rarly changed the oil...all the dumb kid stuff. Was running great for years til I sold it and my brother wrecked it. But yea, it swayed me closer to toyota =) |
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lagos Best beater/DD for $1000? Mar 3, 2012 - 3:09 PM
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