The Best Five Sports Cars Under $45,000 | Kennan Picks

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In this episode, Kennan Rolsen, Managing Editor of Cars & Bids, gives us his top five sports cars for under $45,000. And gets out on the road in one of his picks, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
00:43 CARS & BIDS!!!
00:57 Thign Kennan Considered When Making The List
02:07 Pick #1: The Gen 1 Dodge Viper (Surprised?)
05:34 Pick #2: The Lotus Elise
07:37 Pick #3: The BMW M-Coupe "Clown Shoe"
10:19 Pick #4: The Depreciated Porsche Pick (911 997.1 Carrera S)
12:40 What About THIS Car? The Aston Martin V8 Vantage
13:25 The Engine
15:30 Stepping Inside The Aston Martin
18:32 Driving The V8 Vantage
24:49 Outro

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[astaticboi]

So nice of Doug to let his son review a car

[zacht]

Kennan is the type of guy to say he didn’t consider American cars…then talk about a viper for 10 minutes right after.

[Chrispy]

I really like the restrictions set,
-Relatively exotic
-Manual trans
-reliable enough to not drain your bank account like a f355

[nathangiles]

You have come a long way Kennan, much more natural on camera. Great video :)

[catmobile]

Kennan is the type of guy to review his dads old Aston Martin

[m-sportrevival]

2006-2008 BMW Z4 M Coupe. Rare, fast, reliable, and aging very well. Best kept secret in sports cars.

[bretthansen]

People always want the ZO6 but a C6 Grand Sport with the LS3 engine is a phenomenal car for the $, the base ls3 C6 manuals as well. 👍🏻

[edventures]

If I had $45k rn I’d be looking at a Lotus Evora, Porsche 996 C4s, base 911 997, Lotus Elise s2, c6 corvette Z06

[embiggens]

When I was a young dude I used to say I'd only drive a manual until the day I died. I didn't make it to 40. Modern autos are pretty great, and I hurt often these days lol.

[gordoeinstein]

I appreciate your inability to hold back the laughter when stating "reliability" as being a criteria.

[dwb]

Hello Kennan! Love your suggestions and detailed input. Suggestion: As the perfect intro for forthcoming "Kennan Picks" you could flail your arms in the general direction of the subject vehicle and vehemently announce "THAT" is a (subject vehicle) and today we're going to...and wait, there's more. This could lead to a future Cars & Bids segment called "THIS & THAT" where Doug & Kennan discuss (X).

[ChaseDen]

My dad bought a crashed manual V8 Vantage convertible with the 4.3 engine. We rebuilt it together and it was such a fun car.

[LawrenceMarkFearon]

Your biggest problem with the Viper would be the heat from the side pipes. Burned legs were very common. Car & Driver was frying eggs on the door sills lol. Definitely one of the most addressed aggravations. Today there's aerospace grade thermoshielding for owners wrap the exhaust with and protect themselves. Your lady friends will appreciate that even more.

[IHAI]

Kenan just replaying Doug's greatest hits with this list

[davidlane]

Oh fuck yeah! I got my 4.7 V8 on C&B in December and I have been driving the hell out of it… despite living in Alaska and we still have a lot of snow.

[karuedoingthings]

I recently got a B8 RS5, 70k miles for just over 30k and I think it was an absolute steal. Looked into the vantage but ultimately the RS5 made a little more sense. Barely see any of these out. Absolutely in love with it

[AaronBuma]

I'm down to 1895 lbs dry with my Elise!

[ericjust]

I focused on European cars for this list… first the dodge viper lol

[ForgetfulFoot]

987.2 and 981 cayman boxster. Both relatively modern with great auto and manual choices. Plenty of aftermarket and independent support. Good reliability. Amazing to both daily and track drive. Its a shame. As i wanted a 997. But theres just no competition.

[Soh]

Literally all of those cars are on my dream list of car I want to own before I die. I have to say, I never considered a AM V8 Vantage, but now that you've mentioned it, what a brilliant car that thing is!