When I was in college people who drove Camrys and Honda Accords were more successful. Probably because they were less stressed out financially. No one is going to care what kind of car you have in college - everyone is broke! Buy something reliable that will last so you dont have to fix it while you're trying to go to school. 10k can get you a good car that will be problem free for your 4 or 5 years of college if you make the right choice.

Okay, this is a common question that I get a lot. G35/37s and 350/370zs are college kid MAGNETS. I get it. The resale values on them are terrible and they're fast and sporty, so young people love to buy them cheap and beat the piss out of them. Unfortunately this is why I'm so wary of these cars and tell a lot of people to avoid them. But that's mostly for higher mileage cars with multiple owners. I see that this G37 you're looking at has only 70k, how many owners? If it's one owner, I would say go for it (after a thorough inspection of course, you never know). If these cars are well maintained they are actually somewhat reliable, and shouldn't be too expensive to maintain if you are willing to do some work yourself - they use lots of common Nissan parts. Generally these cars have some odd electronics related issues up there in the higher mileages but they aren't too bad. These cars only really fall apart when they're on their third, fourth, fifth owners and get scooped up by kids who neglect them and constantly push the car to its limits.