what about a vw golf r32

yeah they Mazda 6 MPS are interesting, there's one for sale on uniquecarsales.com.au for $29,000, which seems reasonable for a pretty new/decent car

A year or two ago at least one Autech Stagea was for sale at about 32k .. for a long time they'd sell for 40k.
I expect there are 3-10 of them in Australia.

Definitely be the perfect family car

for the price how about civic type r... honduh trying to off load thembut really sporty good little car. mazda 3 MPS is most powerful fwd, really needs lsd like new ones.

i liked the mazda 6 mps, with awd

I was interested in that too... but its too small and only 2 doors... :( Not that im complaing but for the sake of the thread...

i would hold on to your pennies and wait for the subyota

v35 GTR wagon /stagea
looks mad

meh. i like legnum but the v6 is a horror to work on in that bay. apart from that great car and great engine.

Think it is all sorted, thanks everyone, the goal is something like this:

http://jaydeemmm.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/img2841.jpg

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~32godz ... tagea_r34gtr_frontend.jpg

Will wait until I can find an RB26 Autech model though.

Cheers,
Jim

Dem Mazda3-MPS look alright cuz...