I know - dumb question, but looking hard at S with 123k miles, manual, appears clean for $5300. it's a 5 hour drive for me from Omaha to dealer in Minneapolis, but I've driven further to buy a car... 3 previous owners, doubt I'm going to see many maintenance records. Plan to use as daily driver, we get a bit of snow. Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

That car has the N14 Prince engine, some here have had good luck, many others have had nothing but bad luck. For me, at that age and mileage, I would chose a Gen1 with the Tritec engine.

 

^ this. Keep looking, 2011+ with the n18 engine.