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for under 10k, i'd get a ke70, full suspension, wheels, exhaust etc, and then when i got a nice car off my p's i'd throw an sr20 in the ke for a track pig

He isn't allowed to modify it either remember :P

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datsun 1200 ute :blush:

Girlfriend just bought one (not her first car, but I refuse to travel in a VW Beetle!), with extractors and tune for PULP, great fun to drive, $30 lasts you over 200km of giving it a fair bit of stick, hard to do anything illegal in (though it feels like 60 is a lot faster lol), and you can chuck a bigger or better motor in there quite easily.

Peugot 205GTI - Icon of the small hot hatch cars. They are quite expensive to maintain and repair due to the cost of pug parts

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Honda Civic EG Vti - has vtec, sunroof and a nice looking car in stock form

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Toyota Mr2 Aw11 - rear wheel drive, mid engine, gets plenty of looks and mistaken for old school ferrari.

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Nissan N14 SSS - sr20de, zippy little car. (car has had turbo conversion so disregard the fmic, bonnet is from a gtir)

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Nissan R31 2door import (non turbo) - rare to find non turbo i believe, only seen one for sale..

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Honda Integra DC2 Vtir or Type-R - Quick cars, handle awesomely well

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Also you can get r32 gts, r33 gts4, r34 gt, r31 sil etc

With the p-plate laws they dont allow any cars with power, so you're better off finding a car which can handle the best. Some of the cars listed above could keep up if not out handle your standard silvia/skyline on twisty roads, but it all depends on the drivers skill.

if u want a thrash car go for a corrolla or old datsun, stick an sr20 in it lock the diff and go drifting, easy to keep them p plate legal and under the radar.

other cars like sprinters(my choice) and silvias and old r31 silouettes and r32 gt's non turbo would be viable to, surprising thing is had my liscence maybe 4 months ish not been pulled up once in the sprinter so go old under the radar cars ftw :)

or for something big and old holden or ford be cheap and easy to maintain. way to many options to choose from :( i want an r31 import :( if u can find one of those, their gorgeoussssssss.

k end babbling now, in all seriousness silvia, rwd corrollas, old skylines, and sprinters would be the best choice assuming your mostly a jap/import fan :) be different and find a laurel that would be nice as.

yah get a sprinter... their price gone up a bit...but you should be able to pull one off for under 10k... but the best P plater car (apart from S2k or anything around that price range)...although its a bit outa your budget.... autech S15, N/A, runs about 150kw they're on car point for about 18ish...

Okay I believe I have a fairly concise list of fun p plate legal cars that I have owned here here:

- 1994 N14 SR20DE Pulsar Ti about $4/5k quicker than a SSS because its abought 100 kilos lighter, and looks like a normal pulsar. I love these things (just bought another one) and are so easily modified - not that you can do that.

- 1988 - 1992 Honda Civic Twin Cam Twin Carb about $2/4k fun, noisy, handles well, slooooow though. Not a bad thing, the most fun cars are often not that quick i.e. the original mini.

- 1988+ Honda CRX VTEC D16 about $4k+ same car as above but actually with a decent amount of poke.

- 1990+ 4AGE Corolla Seca about $2/4k easy to modify, great noise, quick for a front wheel drive, handles well.

- Suzuki Swift GTi about $3k+ one of the most fun cars you can own, sweet little engine, fun package. Downside is its girly. Downside for me is I overturned mine in a ditch. Good times.

- Golf GTi can pick these up cheap now - about $5k for a mark 2, about $10k for a mark 4. The original hot hatch. Not that quick really, handles beautifully, quite reliable.

- Golf VR6 about $5/8k. A golf GTi with bigger balls and a 2.6 litre V6. 

- Honda Prelude 3rd/4th gen up to $10k. Honda reliability with a decent engine. Get the Si-R version for VTECs and a real ballsy cruiser.

- Mitsubishi FTO 2.0 V6 manual. about too expensive. It handles. It accellerates. Its waaaaay overpriced.

- Any rear wheel drive datsun. Their all fun, impossible to break and easy to fix if you do.

- R31 Skyline. about $1k to $10k model dependant. Hard to kill, fun as to drive, a stock manual one will drift, the HR31 coupes are the pick though. Parts are getting hard to find. 

Ahh if I think of anything else I'll post it up.

Hi guys.

Just came here looking for some decent suggestions on P-Plate legal cars. I want something that looks nice and has a bit of grunt too for around the $10k mark. I've been looking at N/A R32's and new model Preludes, but I'm really unsure.

Thanks guys.

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