What are some cheap, but reliable cars?
 

My wife has a 92 Honda Si hatchback. Anyway she doesnt like it. She wants a auto non-sports car. Whats a good car besides honda that has cheap, but its a reliable car? I dont car if it looks ugly. I have about 2.5k to spend. Thanks for your time. please state maker/model/years like Honda/Civic/92-95 thanks.
Nick

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Toyota Corolla is very reliable, same with the Camry.
Get an early 90s model, they look like ass but they're built to last.

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some of those early saturns are cheap and slow, my friend at school has one with super high miles and he beats the ---- out of it. its still goin.

or a volkswagon fox.. my friend had one with 250k on it and it was still goin.

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a saturn.. nobody has said that one so far. its be mostly toyotas and hondas even though I said besides hondas.

thanks

Nick

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yeah volkswagen, and toyota

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i have a 94 cav (old style) as myy winter beater and its got 225,000km and it runns great still. I store it every summer and it starts right up!

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a honda civic isn't a sports car ;D. ---- mine has 385,000 miles :o on the orignial engine and its a 96. just find her a civic or toyota with a auto iam sure u can find someone that will trade ur stick Si for a auto. i will never own an auto again they cant even last aslong as the engine.

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I would stay away from the saturn..

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I was told to stay away from there DOHC motors because the drink oil like gas.

95 SL1 is a good car. I guess I need to get that book that tells if cars are lemons.

Nick

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Buy a Peugeot 205, with a 1.1 or 1.4, cheap and reliable. But i doubt you will be able to find one over there :P

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neons are stupid cheap, are they reliable?

Nick

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for the love of god stay away from neon. the head gaskets on them are known u fail repetely and dodge is aware of the problem but doesnt absorb any of the cost of replace the gasket on that piece of ----. for anyone stay away from crysler, jeep , dodge ; they are the biggest pieces of ----. just do a search on "neon head gastket problem"

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The Nissan Sentra is my personal favorite cheap but bullet proof car. I had one that I sold to my next door neighbors son when he went off to college four years ago, it had 165,000 on it then and had been hit in the rear but was still drivable. I dont know how many miles are on it now but it looks like it has been to war and back and its still going strong, he told me the other day that the only thing he has had to do to it was a new starter and a battery. Get a 91 or newer the older ones were crap.

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I had a 91 Dodge Spirit with the 2.5L 4 cylinder in it. That thing ran forever. I actually had to put effort into blowing it up. Finally a wrist pin let go.

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DOn't make it out be a big conspiracy, the haed gasket go's every 80k or so. My brother had one, it was the only repair other than regular maintenance for 4.5 years. And he bought it with 60+k on it. They make the headgasket go, it's engineered that way, and really for what else it's a really cheap car to run.

Besides we all know that toyota has really shitty head gaskets.

I would say an older protege early 90's, I know of a few that are kicking strong well above the 300k mark.

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why not just get her a four door civic or coupe? they hardly classify as sports cars (no offense anyone ;) )

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yeah the only honda that qualifies as "sports car" ;D is a S2K, civics are "economy cars" :P
And changing ur head gasket can run around 500+ if u take it to ur friendly ready to rip u off dyaimler crystler dealer

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Don't get a Neon, there are lots of problems with them besides the head gaskets. There are over thirty pages of technical service bulletins on the fron suspension alone. It had the most technical service bulletins of any car ever made until the Ford Focus came along.
The Chevy Cavalier is a good cheap ride, the Sunbird had a different engine and was crap(back in the early 90s), Saturns are goog cars that can be had for a song, they are almost out of business anyway. The VW Golf/Jetta is good for the money, if you dont mind the cheap plastic trim parts falling off all the time, and as much as I don't like to admit this, the Ford Escort is not that bad, there are very few reliability issues with it, but you would be stuck driving an Escort!

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A mid to late 80's Volvo 240DL. Its a tank! Can't be beat. I used to work for Volvo and we had numerous ones come throught the shop for regular maintenance with 400,000+ Miles!!! Great economy car now! Pricey back then. Check those out or even a 740.

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I had a Geo Tracker 4wd and that thing took a licking and kept on ticking. Hell the only thing that ever broke on it was the hubs for looking the front wheels but drove perfectly but the 4wd didn't work. It may be a tracker but that thing could handle it's own and I beat my friend del sol with a y7 with the 4wd on and lit em up and then he beat after 2nd but that thing grabbed and launched like a rocket, that's probaly why the hubs broke?

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I got two letters for ya- "F" and "X" You just can't beat corolla durability.