Go with the protege. It's a really good buy. Today I saw in teh paper that the local auto dealers were selling DX's with 5spd a/c and cruise for 10,500. (Tempting) especially with about 3 to 4 k's worth of mods (ie, turbo, rear disks, 17 wheels, etc.) that this car could beat just about anything in the 20-30k range. Still thinking about looking at this deal to see if it really is too good to be true ( & it probably is)
