[LandQuail]

Originally Posted by McReis

You should. However, depending onthe year and model of your Subaru, I don't know if it's value is enough. It also depends on what you consider a crappy daily driver.

It's an 04 STi, which is worth approximately:
One ratty Ferrari 308, or
One rat-infested Ferrari Dino, or
One tattered Elan and the cheapest car I can find with working air-con. (****ing HOT in Arkansas.)

Preferably, my daily driver would be something so shitty that people will stop to laugh at. What's the point of going cheap if you're not going REAL cheap. Maybe a 3-cylinder Geo Metro with four donut "temporary spare" tires. Or a 70's American barge with one of our massive 6-liter V-8's that pumped out 110 horsepower when new, and now is down to about 60.

The Elan would be in perfect shape except that it would have been sitting on blocks for twenty years until some halfwit teenager bought it and poured enough unleaded down the throats of the carbs to fire it up briefly. (so that he could put "runs great" in the advertisement)

But, truth be told, I like that damn Subaru too much. It does so many things "pretty good" that it's easy to excuse faults like not being an autocross juggernaut. It's pretty good in a drag race, it's pretty good out a challenging road, it's pretty good on the interstate, pretty good in the rain, and it's pretty good on gravel. Acutally, it's great on gravel. (or grass)

I'm thinking about experimenting with Rallycross, but I feel like the further I get into Racing, the more everything starts to feel like the first twenty minutes of Trainspotting.

I'll get wrapped up in coilovers and 4-point harnesses and racing tires and next thing I'll know, I'm upside down at the bottom of a ravine and my baby has starved to death. I just don't have the cash to race, and definitely not the cash... to crash.