- We always talk about how expensive cars are
but I've got a little secret.
Some cars are actually
at the bottom of their depreciation curve.
And a lot of them are really good cars for car enthusiasts
like us and you, but not everybody knows about it yet.
So today we are looking at 10 fun cars
that cost less than 10 grand,
and we're gonna decide which one is the best.
I'm James,
he's Justin.
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- Justin. - Yes James.
- Tough question.
Do you think that Porsches are expensive
- For the most part, absolutely.
- Think again, because our first car
on this list is the P-car Boxster.
- Like my shorts?
- No, not boxer.
Take a boxer engine, which goes like this
and then a Roadster, which is a car without a top.
You combine them together to make Boxster.
Now, if you're not familiar,
this is basically a mid-age and convertible version
of the 996911, which normally costs like 40 grand.
But the box stir is uglier.
So it's worthless.
(Both laughing)
and more importantly it's way faster than Miata.
Here's one that we found
that's available right now on Greg's list.
All right, We got 2000 Porsche Boxster manual clean title.
It's got the hard top, which is sick.
- Yeah That's pretty nice.
- It's yellow.
- Yellow's a good color.
- Dude, I'm not mad at this.
- This pretty sick, honestly.
- Honestly, like there's not a lot of cars
that yellow makes better.
But this is one of them.
- Curvy cars always look better in yellow.
- No check engine light, clutch works well,
four new good tires,
the whole car's been detailed.
Test drive welcome,
low baller will be ignored.
(Both laughing)
Wouldn't be a Greg's list ad
if that wasn't stated
- Honestly, any car with all these check marks
for less than 10 grand is a good deal right now, regardless.
- And this is like a really good base to make a cool car
at least like on an Instagram level.
- Yeah, for sure.
- 100 percent.
This could be a car that is photographed a lot and reposted
- Quite slammed on some airbags or something like that.
Of course, people may not respect you
but everyone not in a Porsche is gonna be like sick.
- Sick. Literally everyone.
Alright man, I think this is starting off strong.
- That's start off really strong.
- Yeah, but we don't know what else is on the list.
So I'd say high middle.
I'm gonna say maybe fourth.
- Okay. I like fourth.
Yeah. Out of 10.
Yeah. I like Fourth.
- Alright let's say that you're not a fan of yellow PP cars.
And your taste buds favor something
a little bit more Japanese.
Then might I recommend the Lexus IS300.
This is 300 me kicks the guy off that pavement.
This car's got rear wheel drive.
You can get in any five speed manual.
Although they are pretty rare.
- Yeah.
- And it comes with a naturally-aspirated 2JZ
pop the hood.
Haters are gonna tell you that it's not the same 2JZ
as the one in the supra
and that the dashboard on these cars get sticky.
- Sticky?
- Yeah.
- Hmm.
- But if you're like us,
your dashboard's gonna get sticky anyway.
So you might as well just like roll with it.
- Why not?
- All right, let's check this one out
that we found for sale.
2003 Lexus IS300 for the TRUE all caps believers.
$5,000.
- Good price. What's the mileage?
- Riverside.
192,000 miles.
- As expected.
- It's a Toyota though.
- Yes exactly.
- So it'll run for a million without maintenance.
- Yeah. I am abuse.
- This. One's an automatic.
For the true believers, get one while they are hot.
Needs a little TLC,
but nothing that a thousand dollars are so bucks can fix.
- So it's a six grand car, okay.
- Pretty firm on the price, can negotiate.
but also no low ballers.
- Don't low ball me bro.
I'm firm on the price, but I'll negotiate.
(Groans)
So one of our Donut underground members in our discord
has an IS300.
His name is JCM and let's look at his sick IS300.
- Sick.
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- I'm more attracted to an IS300.
- Yeah. For sure.
They are fun to drive.
Yeah. Even the base model ones.
They're still fun to drive.
You got that straight six with four doors.
You can do anything in that thing.
- I'd say if you can find a manual IS300,
it's cooler than a Boxster.
- Okay.
Cooler than a Boxster.
- Justin. - Yes.
How many old BMWs do we have at Donut?
- Ooh. - you have one?
- I have one.
- We have the E36.
- We have Max's Wagon. - Yep.
Max's E30,
- Max's E30.
We have other Max's E30.
We have the Eight Series.
Well, the reason that we have so many BMWs
is because they used to be very cheap.
- Yeah. Used to.
- But that's not really true anymore.
E30s are like a million grand,
E36s and E46s are also getting pretty expensive.
But there is one era of BMW
that is actually getting cheaper
talking the E82 or the 1-series from the 2010s.
- What?
- A lot of people sleep on this,
but they shouldn't.
Take the 128I for example,
it's about the size of an E30
while most modern BMWs and all cars in general are huge.
It has 228 horsepower.
- Okay. - Pretty good.
Which is way more than any E30, that lives here.
(Both laughing)
It handles great.
And again, you can get them with a manual.
Then you've got the 135I
which bumps up the power with a twin turbo.
- Ooh. - Okay.
It's basically an E92, but littler.
Let's take a look at this one
that I found for sale.
I like these.
- 8,500 bucks
- 8,500 bucks dude.
- 165,000 miles.
It's quite a bit.
You're gonna need,
definitely need to check the maintenance on that one.
but it's pretty clean.
- It got an intake.
It's got cool options,
sport package, sport suspension.
- Nice, nice.
- It's got aftermarket wheels
which aren't always a plus, but these are these.
- If you want something you can wrench on
these straight 6s are, you know, not too complicated.
It's real wheel drive, it's manual,
and under 10 grand, you really can't say no to that.
I'm saying down. - Yeah
This is a smart first car.
If you're into cars, look at these.
- And also driving slow cars fast is fun.
- So fun.
- It's so much more fun
than driving something fast
and trying not to die.
- Right.
Dying sucks.
(Low tone sound)
Perhaps you'd rather hit the trails.
A lot of the go-to options from a few years ago are pricey
but the next vehicle is just as capable
and way more affordable.
I'm talking about the Nissan Pathfinder/Infiniti QX4.
Basically the same car,
but the Infiniti is obviously a more luxurious version.
These cars both came with one of our favorite engines
talking of course about the best sounding motor in history
(Justin making trumpet sounds and laughs)
widely agreed upon best sounding engine ever the VQ.
And then like some of the other cars on this list
you can find tons of these things for sale always.
I'd go with the infinity
because I like having leather sheets and stuff.
I just like being sticky when I drive shirtless.
All right, let's take a look at this one.
- Oh, this is a older one. - Good looking.
- Yeah. - That is a good looking one.
- So what I think about these forerunners are expensive.
That's it. Done? - Yeah. Really.
- And then you buy that it's 4x4.
It was a competitor for the 4Runner.
This one is how much?
- (James) This is a - (Both) $3995
All right.
So it's already lifted.
He's got fatter tires on it.
He left the three spokes, which is awesome.
If you want to go offroading with your buddies,
and something, you don't have to care too much about
but also sits nice.
This is great.
- for four grand dollar,
tear this thing up. - Yeah
- I still think.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or yeah, for offroading purposes.
I think it's cooler than the Beater.
- Yeah.
It's more versatile.
You can do more things with it.
You can get it dirty.
You don't have the care.
- So we've gone off road.
We've been in the wilderness.
We've been camping,
but it's time to go back to practical town.
Not that any of these cars aren't practical
but nothing is more practical than a Honda civic.
The specific Civic, or should I say specific?
That we have on this list is a good one.
The eighth gen Civic SI,
which was sold in the late two thousands.
They're great cars.
You can get them in two or four doors, they've got K20s
which are pretty solid, awesome engines.
They make 200 horsepower stock,
but they're also very, very tuneable.
There's a reason that people put K series motors
in like Ferraris.
Now they handle boost like crazy.
You can easily make one 500 horsepower.
- Yeah. - Easily.
- Most importantly,
virtually all civic SI come with a manual.
And there aren't a ton of issues with them
because at the end of the day, it's a Honda Civic.
Honda civics are reliable.
That's kind of the whole point.
- And if you break one, you can fix it for nothing.
- This is the first car.
Well, actually the Boxster I thought about like
maybe I should get one of those
- Maybe I should look into this.
- I thought the same thing about this one.
What do you thinking?
It's definitely here.
- I'm thinking here.
Yeah. Cause the is, is a six old in river drive.
Cool.
- Now maybe having a back seat is still too practical.
maybe you're a little bit of a badass.
But you really want a Civic for some reason.
Right? - Interesting.
- You know what you do get yourself a Civic Del Sol.
- Ooh.
- This bad boy was originally sold in the mid nineties.
And it's just like a regular civic except wake heater.
Think MR2 but front wheel drive and the engines in the front
I've always wanted to get a Del Sol,
like paint it like a Mark 4 Supra from Fast and the Furious.
- Oh yeah that'd be silly.
- And these things, aren't fast.
It's not gonna win a lot of races
but they're fun and very of an era.
And not a lot of people have them.
I think this is like one of the most slept on cars.
One of the most slept on cars.
There's a ton of different versions of this.
Just like every Honda.
Some of them even have Vtech,
(Justin yelling)
no matter what version of the Del Sol you find,
you can pretty much guarantee that it's gonna be cheap
because again, very slept on.
We found this one for $5,000.
It's not the best example
but we also live in Los Angeles and everything's overpriced
but there are very cool versions of it out there.
I encourage you to get one
and make it look like Paul Walker's Supra
from the Fast and the Furious
because I think that would be hilarious.
It'd be a cool little time and tech car.
- It'd be sick for that auto crosser time effect.
Anything you do with light cars,
it'd be sick for cause that's what it is.
- I like them.
- I like them too.
Now, where would you put it though?
Above the Boxster?
- Yeah.
- Speaking of MR2s (Justin reacts)
How about an MR2? (Justin reacts)
The most overlooked MR2 of all time.
One is the third gen MR2 Spyder with a Y
also known as the ugly one
but just because it's ugly doesn't mean that it's not fun.
The MR2 is mid engine and real world drive.
So basically if you think about it, it's a cheap Lotus.
- Absolutely.
- And they even actually have the same engine
as the Lotus least.
Now this would make a great auto cross car
a great like canyon car.
Good weekend, fun thing.
Here's one we found in Mendocino county.
- Oh nice bumper.
They're mid engine,
which is something we don't get much of these days.
Cheap, mid engine cars.
They are getting really popular now with like,
you know weekend track people.
But it is a little bit more difficult to find a good one
for less than 10 grand.
But it's not to say that you can't.
- I like this thing.
It's cool in Del Sol.
So the MR2 is cool,
but let's say you're one of those people
whose dream car is a 350Z, just like high car.
But the reality is you're Nolan.
So you're on team low.
I don't know what that would be like, but I am empathetic.
And I do want to help everybody out.
Another example of the luxury version being cheaper
than the not luxury version, the Infiniti G35.
It's the exact same car essentially as the 350Z,
same engine, same transmission.
It's real wheel drive.
- If you leave them stock, it still can be cool.
Put some nice wheels on it and get it buy a good exhaust.
And it's a fun car to have
- Assuming you're gonna buy one of these cars.
Be very aware of the fact
that there's probably a lot of not very nice examples.
A lot of them have been crashed on.
Do your research and check the mails.
- Let's see what we got though.
- Here's what we found in Sylmar.
- Hey, it's clean.
- I like this one.
- How many miles?
155. That's not too bad.
Seats are a little damage, but it's manual.
That's great.
Stock wheels are on it.
See, this is a good car.
- Yeah, 8,300 bucks.
- He kept it real short.
Fun, reliable sounds great.
Bang.
- I mean, even though like technically on paper
it might be better than some of these.
I agree.
Well, let's crank up the Hersh Persh Justin,
what do you buy if you want a hell cat
but you can't afford an 84 month loan with 32% APR?
(Justin reacts and laugh)
You go back to 2008
and you buy the closest thing to a hell cat.
You can find I'm talking about the Chrysler 300 SRT8.
The Rolls Royce of Detroit.
One of our own, one of Donut's favorite sons.
Our post producer Joseph just bought himself
a 2008 SRT8
because he needed a sensible car for his baby.
His has a sub in it.
It's the funniest I got a car cause of my dad car
I've ever seen.
Apparently sensible means having 425 horsepower
a tinted windshield.
And like I said, tons of shoves to rock the baby to sleep.
Here's the thing you paid less than 10 grand for it.
These aren't as easy to find
as some of the other cars on this list,
but it is definitely the cheapest SRT eight
that you can find.
And I remember when the 300 came out and they're cool.
- Yeah, they're really cool.
They still are.
That's the thing.
And it matches everything that chargers have.
And it's the same thing really.
Except a little bit nicer.
It's a dope car.
- I think I'm gonna rock the world right now
(Ground shaking sound)
and put it above with Del Sol and Porsche
I can't believe either, but here we are.
Which brings us to our final car
which might be the least practical one on this list
but we're not here to talk about practical vehicles all day.
We're here to talk about fun vehicles
and nothing is more fun than a Chevy Corvette.
The cheapest Chevy Corvette is the C4.
Engine options in these bad boys
range from 200 horsepower all the way up to 330.
(Justin overwhelms)
smoking.
And it's got one of the most
quintessential Corvette bodies ever.
This is the Barbie car.
You can spend a lot of money on a C4 Corvette
but if you don't care about things like comfort
you can find really cheap ones
like this one that we found for 9,500 bucks.
These are cool.
- They're dope
- Dude, I love with Corvette
like you open the hood the cool way.
Cool seat looks very adjustable.
- Hmm. C4 Corvette.
I know these are kind of difficult to work on
but besides that I agree they're the most slept on Corvette.
They have some of the coolest wheels
the little razor blades
- Saw blades.
- Yeah, saw blades.
- They have saw blades and salad shooters.
I think these are pretty cool.
- I think it's dope.
It's got the popup lights.
It's retro right now.
That's a really nice one for $9,500.
You can buy and beat up for much less.
- Yeah.
- Where will you put it though?
Definitely better than BMW.
You put it high.
- Yeah. - Oh man.
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