Rippers

Can it be cheap if your sensible? in the sense of say you buy a pretty good condition F/RST for say around £3k in reasonable/pretty good condition, a few sensible mods say 150bhp and slightly lowered but everything else standard (esp in the looks department). Also if you where aged 25yrs old plus its pretty cheap to insure say £300pa and you could service/maintain the car yourself..

In your opinion could it be used as a 8k a year daily run about? How much do you think the car would be worth say in 3 years time if you kept the condition good (regually maintained body/engine/waxoiled etc)?

All hypothetical of course

I'm just wondering if it would be a cheaper/just as cheap option for the missus for a cheaper car to buy outright rather then finance another bread and butter car that would depriecate

Think she would miss the air con and power steering thou