Joe, Well being that you want to keep it around 10K that is going to limit you to a lot of nice cars as you know. From what I've seen you have very good taste with cars and I know you arent going to buy something stupid... like a volvo. But here are a few car that came to mind with me being around 10K

MR2 - maybe not enough room

DSM - Well, we all know how reliable they can be

SC300- Nice car, as we all know the potential of them styling and power wise

GMC Cyclone/Typhoon - Then we rejoin the issue with reliability

Audi S4/A4 - I like the styling of them, not sure on their gas mileage.

Subaru Impreza - Older body style, not turbo AWD. Turbo98 used to havea red one that from the pictures I have seen were very nice. Also back in the day the guy who used to have the silver one with NOTAWRX on his plates.

Hondas - I dont know how much of a fan you are of Hondas, but you just sold the hatch, do you really want to jump into another honda? If so, there is a white type R for sale on RT.17

SRT4 Neon - I dont know why im mentioning this... I have a feeling you wouldnt want the whole... "you drive a neon" talk going on.