Suggestions for a vehicle?

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I figure I'd enjoy a motorcycle from all my experience biking, and motorcycles are usually cheaper than cars, not to mention lower insurance and higher gas mileage.

Right about lower insurance and better gas mileage, wrong about the bike being similar to a motorcycle, though.

Bikes you'll get at most upto 30 mph, assuming it's well-oiled and you're going downhill on a good day. On a motorcycle, you're doing anywhere between 25 and 120mph (easy to do on a sport bike) and there's nothing between you and the pavement belt-grinder below you, except the gyro force of your forward momentum.

Motorcycles have drastically different principles of physics governing them than cars. You'll be having to learn how to balance something that weighs about 3 to 6 (assuming you weigh an average of 160 lbs.) times as much as you do between your legs without dropping it whenever you're not moving. Shifting and braking can also be tricky on a motorcycle, because you need to maintain that same balance between throttle/clutch that you do in a car, except you're also trying to use your body weight to control the movement of the cycle and keep a sharp eye out for traffic (cars that outweigh you by, at minimum, a 5:1 ratio) all at the sametime. Braking too quickly will send you into a skid, or just launch you off the saddle and into anything that would be within an 120 degree forward arch of your position.

It really all depends on what your goals are for owning this vehicle. If it's strictly for transportation purposes, I'd say fuck it and get yourself an old volkswagen beetle with the flat 4 in it. You can lighten the shit out of it, you can either modify the flat four 8 ways from sunday or completely ditch the engine all together and go with an electric conversion kit. It'll be an assload cheaper than buying any new car, if you get one before model year 1975 you won't ever worry about shit like smogging it and it'll be fucking dirt cheap to insure. There would be the issue of making the car safer, but a roll-cage and five point belts is an extremely effective and cheap alternative to other SRS options, and would only add to the comfort/drive/survivability of the vehicle.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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I know a guy with a V6 from a 300z in the back of his bug.

Yeah, you can fit literally any engine you want in there, I've seen guys drop 454s, LS1s, I've seen DOHC VTECH B18s, Vegetable oil converts, dual turbo flat four setups, everything.

Speaking of Zs and V6s, I'm building a 1972 240Z with the VG30ET out of a 1987 300ZX, also using the five speed tranny, the 230mm rear diff and we're adding water injection, new gasket, ARP main bolts and a kevlar timing belt, so we can crank the fucking boost to like 20PSI safely. It's going to weigh-in at about 2200 lbs., the V6 will allow us to further balance the weight distribution, and the engine will produce about 450 down the shaft. The total cost of this project is gonna end up being about 4k, and I'll have a car that is street legal, cheap to run (from mid-range on up, it'll be about a 60/40 mixture of fuel and water, because we'll be pushing the fuel well into detonation range, whihc is safe with water injection) and can quite easily beat anything else on the road.

There's nowhere I can't reach.