Nuke

You should be able to pick up a leftover '10 GT with a few bells and whistles in the mid $20k range; possibly $25k-27k if you know how to haggle. I lived in Chicago for a bit and strongly recommend keeping the Cheep for the winter and storing the Stang. I put both my and the g/f's Stangs away for the winter with the boat.

Ford-a-tude

Ahhh, so true. To have a nice car here in IL, you have to keep the winter beater too. I would hate to see a new 'stang get beat up from the salt.