Advice?

[GreenMachine]

Just engaging in a little car-dreaming at the moment.

At present, and for all the forseeable future, I'm living in Brisbane and working on the Gold Coast. This results in 150k's of highway driving a day.

Right now, I'm driving a semi-borrowed NF Fairlane, which is awesome. However, in a few weeks, I'll probably have to give it back, which is not awesome.

This leaves me with the Green Machine and an 18R-G powered Toyota Stout (Hilux). Both these cars are great for their own thing (revving in the garage and taking rubbish to the dump respectively), but neither is the sort of car that I want to get in for 2 hours a day.

As good as it is to have a beater ute and a tough cruising car, I'm just feeling that neither of them suits my needs particularly well at this time of my life.

As neither of the cars owe me anything and are (sadly) worth bugger all (compared to what I've spent), the plan is probably to de-register both and use the Stout as a farm car and just sit the Green Machine in the shed and pray for it to appreciate at a greater rate than it rusts.

So after all that bollocks...

What do y'all think of R32/33 Skylines? I just want a stock, manual coupe - something I can drive to work every day but still be happy flogging around on weekends.

Basically, my criteria are:

Stock, but performance-oriented
Under 20k purchase price
Efi
Sub 5-litre, but fuel economy is not really a concern
Preferably manual
Preferably a coupe

Any suggestions? Not incredibly concerned about brands either - would be as happy in a Chev or a Nissan or a Toyota or a Ford or whatever, just as long as it's relatively reliable...