any new car advice Options

[Taxiwardance]

Need some advice or just opinions on buying a new car. I’m getting ready at the end of this month to buy a new car but every car I have ever bought has been outright. Right now I’m looking at a Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart 5 speed with “sun and sound” package right on the 20k mark. What other models should I be looking at? 16K is around where i need to be. A couple of the main reasons I’m looking at Mitsubishi is because of the 10yr 100k miles warranty, and because of the rebates and employee discount (know a guy who already has me set up) so after 2k off from rebate and about 2k from Emp discount It will be around 16,000.00. I take it there’s no bargaining room when using an employee Discount hu? Also what should I look out for and check out before I buy? Just looking for some opinions on anyone who has owned or knows someone with a lancer or suggestions on other cars I should be looking at.

P.S. Insurance is a big deal so that kind of pushes a few of the cars I would like out of my range.
Thanks

[turbohcar]

Used Dodge Neon SRT-4s can be had for the 16k range. I know I saw one late last year at Extreme Motors here in Bloomington for 16k on the button. It only had about 15k miles on it too. Beware of OBriens, they like to pull crap like what grimy was talking about. I hear the lancers are decent family cars, but if it were me, I'd buy a used 3rd gen Eclipse. Some of the upper tier packages are nice, I don't think they're that bad looking as most people commonly think, and the stick shift V6 does have a nice set of low end balls. There's one I was looking at in Carlock at a local used dealership in the $9k range with 40k miles and it's a 2000. Leather, Auto, CD player and everything. There's also one in Leroy that I was looking at, same color as Rollout's maroon car. It's a 2000, stick shift, V6 with about 40k miles in the $9.5k range, leather, moonroof, and CD player as well. I'm not sure if you're looking for something newer but I thought they were decent deals.