Morning all,

In answer to your questions, what I'm after is an out-of the box performance car that can also be a good daily. I want a car that has good straight line acceleration, good seats and handling which I intent to use as a daily drive, as well as an exciting streeter and something that's good for winding mountain roads on the weekends. I've never been out on the track, but when I buy one of these, I would like to attend a few (or many, depending on how hooked I get) track days.

I also want a car which will have good resale value and is relatively cheap to run/insure. I'm not into imports for these reasons. Don't flame me for this, but I don't wanna car that'll be a money pit. I don't like spending too much on mods. I'm only interested in basic bolt-ons (I/H/E, maybe suspension and ECU). I wanna car that I can return to stock later and recoup some cash. I know that I can do this with both cars.

I guess i might sound like I'm asking a lot, aren't I?


As far as my experience goes, I've driven various performance cars (NA MX-5/s14/WRX/BA XR6/DC2/DC5) and I believe that as long as the car is well set up suspension wise, I don't care if it's RW or FWD. Too many people get hung up on this and the RWD vs FWD debate has been done to death. Although I like the sport, I'm not a drifting fanboy either.

As far as the cars I've owned though, they've mostly been 4 pot FWD bangers. My current car is an EM1, and it's the best car I've owned so far. It's almost time to step it up to something better, hence the reason for this thread.

In the past I've done basic mods and servicing myself. I don't usually attempt big jobs, but (like all of us) I am learning and my list of tools is growing.

Thanks for all of the replies so far. I guess after some though the DC5r is more of an out-of-thebox performance car (recaros/suspension set up/transmission), but the s15 sounds like a good daily (softer)proposition. I'm still open to all of your views.