Its good to have a beater. Type R is going no where.
Driving a big vehicle is less nimble and reactive. You will increase your chance of getting into a major collision from it. I have a co workers ford f250 sd get in a t bone accident last year. I dont have a picture but it was basically...
Reminds me of last summer. Had a clapped out g35 sedan loud as hell. Try to race me in the fk8 on the highway. He kept revving at me and took off. I bet he thought he won a race that which he was the only participant.
Had to look up maintenance mode. I did mine the old school way.
Just took off calipers then epb solenoid and used e11 torx to run down the screw till it stopped.
Cracked bleed screw compressed piston by hand with old pad.
Put in new and put back together. Re bled both calipers. Engaged...
Because of what ethanol does in the fuel system i have always ran a cleaner once a year in my vehicles. Anything with a lot of PEA in it, is best. I use gumout regane high mileage. Chevron techron, gumout one n done, redline sl1, etc are quite good.
I saw a new wrx with a sti style wing with aftermarket gold wheels/lowered on the toll road. Not bad looking with all that and its plastic cladding. I think a viable affordable option
Buy an old miata and ls swap it.
but if you need to trade in to get another car for 50k ish. Theres nothing other than the obvious as already said.
i do like the bmw supra now that it has manual available.