I kinda halted my car search because the wife and I started down the road of trying to buy a house, but we've since decided to table that for a year. So now I can look again, but with the house purchase looming, my budget has dropped to about $30k. So I've been investigating stuff at that level. If your turbo was $30k I'd buy it now, but you'd be insane to do that
. For $30, it looks like I could get a pretty minty E46M3. Or I could wait for the Focus RS to come out which should be in the mid 30s (probably high, but for a new car with warranty I could probably justify this in my head). Whatever I get needs to be dead-nuts reliable as it will be a daily, so I have to disregard a lot of the older and/or higher mileage stuff. Also have to disregard anything modified as I am done dealing with headaches (something like an exhaust or wheels is fine).