I love the Saab 9-5T in a six speed. It's not a lot of power, 220 iirc, but the quality of the car is top notch, it's extremely luxurious(!), and has some upgrade options. A three year old saab with ~40k miles is about 16k near cleveland (a two.5 hour drive I took to drive one and got there in a bout an 1.25 hours. Very nice cars.
The gtis are also cool. The 1.8t is more cost effective to mod (more pwr/money) but the vr6 is just awesome. The 1.8t is to the point where any idiot can upgrade it anymore too.