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Here's the question no one's asked yet: do you NEED a car or do you WANT a car?
If you need a car, then take that 4k and buy a lemon. If you don't know how to drive manual, buy a manual car and beat the shit out of it in order to help you learn so you'll be ready when you get a twin.
Wanting something is completely different. Think about human desire; one month we may be obsessed about something to the point where it drives us insane, then the next month we forget about it and move on to something else. You may think that you want a BRZ now but what about in 4-5 years? What if another awesome cheap sports car is launched that you like even more than the BRZ? You said yourself that you won't be able to enjoy the BRZ during med school, so think about your perception of the car as the weeks drag by, the payments pile on. Soon enough you'll be in a financial hurricane and every time you see your BRZ it'll only remind you of how screwed you are, and you'll eventually begin to view the car as the sole reason why you're in a rut and you'll hate it, and by the time you're through med school and in a job you'll be so sick of the car that you won't even want it anymore.
I know how wanting something that bad feels; you basically convince yourself that you will want the thing forever and nothing but that single thing can satisfy your craving. But it never lasts, never. You're young, and I'm young too, so we're more vulnerable to drastically changing wants and desires than the older members here. We're in what I like to call our "quarter-life crisis", which is just like a mid-life crisis but without the means of paying for what we want. The best thing for you to do is to forget about the BRZ and focus on school, give it a few years. I know it seems like forever, but it'll pass faster than you think it will, and I bet that once you have enough money to buy a BRZ you'll already be wanting something else.
Good luck with med school btw.
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