Brown - Have you read through Murlo's $15k DD thread? It's surprisingly identical to this one.
http://www.mitsustyle.com/forums/sho...ghlight=%2415k
My personal advice, if this is truly just for a DD car, you'd be better of with something newish with a warranty than a more used "luxury" car. A lot of times the newer econoboxes have just as many, or more, features than luxury cars from 5-10 years ago.