I'm pretty much in the same bote.
Selling my nx now and will have about 14k to spend on the car + I guess about 2k for insurance (23yo, perfect record max NCB, sydney). So my choices are r33 (series1), r32 (year 1992-1993) or 1993 180sx...
Not sure about 180sx as my friend already has 200rwkw 180 and it does fly low, but I just don't want second 180 in the company also I don't really like the front end...
That's funny that r32 and r33 cost pretty much the same now, but I'm looking more at r32 as I've heard from different people that it's a b!tch to sell r33. So as I understand now depresiation of r33 is much bigger and I don't want to be 5k down in couple of years...
just my 2c.