Originally Posted by Cobra4B

Save up enough to buy a decent e36 chassis... never shopped them so don't know what a non M3 e36 goes for.

Originally Posted by D_Eclipse9916

Hate to be a fanboi but E36 M3 Sedans go for around 7-10k and are way better autoxers and daily drivers than rsx, crappy sentras (aka the newer ones), srt4s, gvr4s, s4s. Seriously? Aside from the RSX (or focus which actually aint bad at all, I love driving them) I would run away from those as an autox/track car.

That said, if your getting a bmw you need to be ahead of the game maintaining, not behind. Dead reliable if your up front with the maintenance, not like a honda where once its broke you can fix it for cheap. You dont spend the $400 to replace the cooling system (which would last another 100k miles), you blow a headgasket. You dont change bushings and control arms, youll be lying on the side of the road with possibly being into a wall from loss of control. But it will be 10x those cars people are mentioning for autox/track use and DD use.

Knock out the 4-seat requirement gets you into some other REALLY good cars for that type of stuff that a few people have mentioned.