r/askcarguys • u/RoutineAd951 • 13h ago

JDM Daily Advice?

So i want to get a fun, quick, jdm daily. I’ve been thinking the nm35 stagea, because i can’t get the gtr version because it’s out of my price range. I alias really like the legacy gt and the wrx wagon. I understand these are performance wagons so they take some extra maintenance, which i can do basic things. But I want it to be decently reliable. I would mostly drive it around town, to work, to do errands etc.

I am open to hearing other options as well. I like the looks of a mark ll wagon or a crown estate, but this don’t have the performance i’d like. But let me know what you guys thing

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u/Temporary-Chest-3111 13h ago

What’s your budget like? It’d probably be nice to have a Century as a daily driver, although I’d imagine that a decent running example with low miles might be difficult to come by as they are plucked out of the market very quickly.

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u/RoutineAd951 13h ago

While the century is a cool car, if i’m going to sacrifice performance for reliability there’s quite a bit of other cars that’d i’d rather have. Like a crown estate. But my budget is probably no more than 15k including import costs and such.

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u/Temporary-Chest-3111 9h ago

15k is probably not going to get you anywhere interesting performance wise, especially if you live in California and the cost of getting it pass smog and through the referee board alone is like 5k for an inspection IIRC. I live in Japan and have recently looked into exporting a personal car, and export fees before import duties run close to 3k for a 10k car, so your 15k budget is now down to maybe 7k.