You want a car you can drive right now thats still fun to drive and is dependable, so you can work out some kinks with your current stang? Not sure if your talking about keeping your current car forever or if your looking for a stang you can keep forever. Its tough to look at stuff like that cause life happens. If you want a car to mess around with alot on a budget I would say get a nice fox the 5.0s are great build motors and are pretty cheap to work on.