Thread: small fun car with manual gearbox

Originally Posted by Geedublya

Manual makes it hard.
A quick search on carsales for 10 years old and newer, manual gearbox, not a hatchback in Victoria brings up a bunch of WRXs, Mazda 3s, a couple of Skodas, a Commodore V6, an Audi S3, a VW of some sort and a bunch of Kias, Hyundais, Nissans and Hondas that I doubt you would be interested in.
If you want a largeish sedan or wagon there is bugger all in manual.

I just bought my daughter a Suzuki Swift Sport, it's a great little car, 1.6l 5 speed manual, great handling, but noisy and sits on 3500rpm at 110kmh but has a redline at 7000, drinks premium and isn't super economical 6.7l/100.

Yeah ... its frustrating. Any car that catches my eye, is far to old to get as a "modern daily driver"... I might have to go and try a chrysler 300 and see what it drives like. I'm expecting a big kinda floaty barge (hopefully). I'm thinking about 10year old as that is before all the crazy crap touch screens, auto braking, auto crap that tries to over-ride the driver. And lets face it, is there a car made in the last 10years you would want to own

I'm thinking big comfy passenger sedan. They don't seem to exist any longer though. We have Jags, Mercs and exotics, but imagine trying to get parts for them at a reasonable cost... hmmm.... A pretend 4wd (aka: any plastic jacked up junk to try and look like a 4wd... I don't understand this "every car needs to look like a 4wd so middle aged women will buy them" caper) holds absolutely no appeal. And that is what the market is full of.