Any Subaru fans?
We bought my daughter a 1998 Impreza her junior year of college (Colorado), paid $3000 from a lawyer in Santa Monica CA. I thought of it as a beater, safe car, that would be good for a California girl in Colorado. Here we are 5 years later, with a little maintenance love now and then and she is still driving it and it treats her great. She has traveled all over and it's never let her down. Just a little over 200,000 miles and it's like new. Very fancy for as old as it is, leatherish heated seats, power everything and it moves pretty well.