[PunkAlex]

The best thing to do is to go buy a magazine subscription (you got the bucks) to Sports Compact Car, Tuner Performance Report, or maybe Turbo and see what the real people of this world have for cars. That'll give you the general idea of what to get. Avoid mags like Import Tuner and Super Street-they tend to be a bit ricey. MAgazines are how i learned the massive amounts of geeky car info that i tend to blabber off sometimes.

Oh yeah, like it has been said, avoid the shit in The FAst and the Furious and 2f2f...its very unrealistic and misleading (i still cant get over the "ten grand stand alone fuel management system" or the 10 sec Eclipse gs-t (watch the drag scene-its a fwd launch)