flatlander937 In short, I HIGHLY recommend the Mazda2 as a substitute. It drives like a Miata with more room and spinning the wrong wheels.
Searched craigslist in my area for Mazda 2, got nothing. Searched for Ferrari and found 2 cars. I gotta find one of these. Mazda 2 more loved.
There's a green Mazda 2 for sale at a used car lot near me (SE PA). Even a manual. No price shown, though.
penultimeta wrote: Note that old odometers only had 5 digits on them. It was not expected to make it to 100k.
THIS! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Join the M2O Mazda2 Owners Facebook page, there are people selling them there every so often. I've never seen more than one on Craigslist myself.
There are very limited numbers of them out there. I think only 60k in the US from 2011-2014.
I just found a 2013 manual m with 35k miles for $7900 on CL. That's a little high according to kbb.
If it's a Sport, then yeah it's probably a bit high. I'd offer $6500-7000 depending on condition.
If it's a Touring, it's not bad because it's damn near impossible to find a 5spd Touring in a color that you find acceptable, that's nearby.
Keep in mind even if you overpay by a few thousand - it will still be less than what any Mini product will cost you over the course of a few years. 
They're insanely fun when you do some suspension stuff to them... the guy giggling in the passenger seat in this video just got out of driving a GT350R on the track about 10 minutes before. He was laughing hysterically after I got a point by from a 5.0 Mustang...
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