Haha, speaking of cheap transportation, early in our marriage my wife and I had a Dodge Colt Vista wagon which I think was basically a Mitsubishi. We were broke starting out and wanted to pay cash. That turned out to be a pretty good little car! It would haul a ton of crap, including sea kayaks on the top, got good gas mileage, and ran OK with the manual trans. Only issue we had was the A/C compressor went out out right before a trip from NM to Kansas City in July. That sucked but it never let us down.
