>>>Jake, you are the man! As far as Allie, daughters were invented to teach their fathers humility. I can stand her occasional disapproval. It's an unspoken two way pledge we have between us. Plus she suggested I get an automatic transmission, which is what she knows how to drive ;-)
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>>getting a sports car with automatic is NUTS...
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>When I did my first daughter-driver-lessons, automatic wasn't even mentioned. She passed with flying colors and the officials' jaw dropped ("such a young girl driving stick, and so smoothly!"). And then she bought a Nissan 240SX, vintage 84 or 93 or something. The commute to her first job was about 3 miles :).

I bought an older used S12 when compensation from a crash involving a US visitor took some time.
Went from 80K km to 180K km in short time as I was on the road often - then turbo blew.
Still not a bad buy. Friend of mine had the S13 - that one was really great.