all mitsu's are piles of steaming crap. everything from old to new.. my friend derrek has a 90 eclipse.. the transmission repair costs for that car per year from daily driving is more than the car is worth.
WRX's suck. WRX STI's rule. Just change out the stock tires they come with to something that is more all season because the stock tires are very very bad in rain, they are more of a warm weather dry track tire rather than a street car tire.
My uncle Steve has an 89 (?) or about there CRX in Indi that he said he'll sell me for $500... it runs but needs a malarkeyload of work but would be better made into a street racer...
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Anyways... a Honda or a Volkswagon make great cars for daily driving. If you are looking for something that would eat anything on the streets, get a 93-96 Mazda MX-6, throw 1 or 2 turbos on it and do some suspension tweaks.. it'll eat anything
. (thats a car my brother and I have been working on for about 3 years now... we have a 94 MX-6 and we did a complete body-off destruction on the car and re-built it all.. so it is a trick car from the ground up... literally.)