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Since you're a FOSS fag, note that computers in an older car are very simple and as long as the firmware cannot be flashed for these computers, It is considered by RMS okay. But you might have to some research on whether or not there's a equivalent replacement to flash the firmware and is free as in freedumb, but modern cars are a complete nightmare to repair and also against your muh freedom idealogy. So might as well dock modern cars off your list.

Here's a few ideas you can actually do

>import a nip car, due to retarded japan regulations about pollution, you can import cool Japanese cars with very low mileage, the wheel is on the right side unlike american cars, etc.

<you have to fucking import it, the car weighs like a lot of kilos and has to be shipped on a ship and everything, you still need to learn how to maintain it and in rare circumstances repair it

>get an aussie muscle car, can't get any better than that

<as of right now, it's pretty much mad max, v8s and v6s are all taken up and very expensive and collectable and will require knowledge to repair and maintain on much older vehicles

>get used cars in your local state/area

<a fucking gamble without very good knowledge & research, must have knowledge on how to repair and maintain cars

The Australian dollar isn't strong but it's not that bad as a hellhole it is when it comes to selecting a variety of cars.

Some cars have terrible automatic tranmissions but reliable manual transmissions, so be even more wary and do some research.

>>17806

>1988 toyota supra

not bad, but has 200k racked up it can still run fine and i have to say it's very cheap

>1986 toyota supra

bit expensive but not a bad choice

>ford falcon

noice but no a/c and has 300k's racked up

>toyota corolla

60k isn't bad but being off the road for 22 years and it does look like it's been maintained with the obvious example of the tires aren't cracked and looks very ideal

>all of the rest toyota celicas

If i had to pick one, it would be the 1999 SX-R car but it has a lot of kilometers built up but has a really low pricetag.

You can't go wrong with either of those, but a toyota is king in reliability and still are til this day.

Firstly, it depends on how car-literate you are. I'm presuming you at least know how to drive and do an oil change. If you're not confident with working on your own car for the time being, you should try disassembling and reassembling something much less complex and integral to your daily life (i.e. a computer or a lawnmower) until you get the hang of things.

Any country where Toyota operates its own subsidiary (Japan ofc, US, Australia) is a country where their reliability and dependability is doubly ensured, so you should definitely opt for them if you want something from during the Aussie malaise period (approx. Falcon XD - XH) that won't give you much trouble.

>>17796

I have no idea what things are like in your neck of the woods, but if you're just starting out, I'd recommend some sad old piece of shit with as few computers as possible. Electronic engine control can seem like black magic if you don't know what you're doing, and an older electronic system would invite the possibility of shit like obscure sensor XYZ breaking and giving you headaches trying to track it down. A carbureted engine has a lot less shit to break and really only needs one wire to run. Plus, when you go to tune it, you're actually swapping out and adjusting physical parts rather than typing in values on a table, which makes it much easier to conceptualize the changes you're making and understand how your adjustments are affecting how it runs.

You can't really get more FOSS than a mechanical system, but as for an actual electronic system, there's one that I know of and that's Megasquirt.