Seriously if you want reliability and your looking at cheap old cars you can scrub old ford nails, crappy vauxhalls and any french tat off the list.
Any of these will give u major trouble.
Go for a lude.
Or if you want torque, get hold of a really old civic, the one before the EF, get a B20 block from a Honda CRV, then a B16 head from a civic vti, bolt them together and away you go.
A friend of mine did this and he ran loads of 13.5 second 1/4's, was very funny seeing him run neck and neck with an NSX, he never had it set-up or anything and guessed it was running about 175-180bhp, with proper work these can easily reach 250bhp+ N/A.
Or Civic VTi, get an old volvo turbo, make up some intercooler pipes and bam, instant evo beater, I know as I had one.
