The kind of girls that are just attracted by the car are probably not wifey material in the first place. As far as which car, that's up to you imo. Your making the payments so why not get a car that you drool over everytime you go out into the garage. Screw what everyone else thinks.

As far as bang for buck out of the box HP for the used car market in the 15-20k range, I doubt you could go wrong with a later year C5, Terminator Cobra (good luck finding one that hasn't been beat for that price ), F-body, FD. Even a mint E36 M3 would be cool.


Oh and whatever you do, don't get a supra if you want to attract girls. They seem to attract more guys than anything else