I'm starting to search for a fun daily driver and occasional road trip car for my wife as her current lease will be up early next year. Would like to keep the budget under $50K if possible. This will be a purchase, not a lease. Will consider new or new-ish (less than 3 year old preferrably). Your help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated as I'm at a lost right now. Every car that I had on my list have some sort of issues or don't carry a spare. The spare is a deal-breaker.

I've been doing quite a few drives (weekends and week-longs) with Raddrives.com over the past few years with the Z4MC and really enjoyed it. But I've seen my fair shares of tire problems during those times and none of which can be repaired with the can of glue that comes with my Z4MC. Almost all the mishaps took places out in the middle of nowhere (60-100 miles away from the nearest town). So the next car HAS to have a spare as it will be taking over road trips duty.

Cars on the top of my list right now:

• Subaru WRX - Best all arounder?
• Jaguar F-PACE 35t - British/India reliabilty? Don't have much data on it. Any fun for canyon carving???

Cars that I had considered, but are no longer in the running:

• F80 M3 - Has S55 Engine Crank Hub issues. No spare tire.
• 435i GrandCoupe - No spare tire.
• R60 Mini Cooper Countryman JCW - No spare tire. Any fun for canyon carving???
• Porsche Macan S - Transfer case issues. Any fun for canyon carving???

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2004 X5 3.0i
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Delivered 03/04