Makes me nostalgic for the days of “Tavarish,” whose theme as a Jalopnik contributor was living large for a relatively small amount of money by snagging the cast-off cars of the rich at the bottom of their depreciation curve. He could also do a lot of his own work and was quite open about this risk of rolling like a…

I believe it’s legal to use hand signals instead—same ones you learned in bicycle safety in second grade.

Also, Western ownership and the sort of car you’d turn to in winter conditions (this one is for sale in Denver), for road trips, etc. It’s just the amount of gravel in the atmosphere. My record here in New Mexico is two weeks between replacement windshields on the same car, and one of those weeks was the road trip on…

Less-expensive and lower-mileage comps abound. I could get a one-0wner, clean-Carfax 2007 with half that mileage for the same price right now... from a dealer. Potentially nice if not downright great vehicle at a no-dice price.

Even in its heyday, the main appeal was that it was about the cheapest new sedan on the US market. Its heyday was three decades ago, and this particular example seems like a low spec to begin with and now could suffer from all the ills of long-disused machinery. Probably best left to enthusiasts of the model, somebody…

it seems to me that those dash carpets actually make the dashboard hotter, thereby accelerating/increasing any damage.

The seller sure knows how to present a car. I am a bit curious, though, about the leafed-out trees and green lawns in most of the pictures, probably not representative of that area in early February. Perhaps this is not the first attempt to sell this vehicle?

It may all seem like one big yolk, but omelet it be known that the victims probably don’t think it is so funny. But I’m sure some hard-boiled detective will figure out who’s been carton them off.

As one might expect of a dealer, the asking price is not exactly a giveaway and probably higher than private party. Nonetheless NP if it runs like it looks (considering the location, carefully inspect the underside to make sure that road salt hasn’t reared its ugly head). The miles are low, and the demographic of…

At least he’s just indulging in a forbidden sort of cosplay. Once in a while a cop impersonator (they’re out there) wants money, or something even worse, like taking a victim to a secondary crime scene.

I think of the Chrysler 300 (Aughties) as being an aesthetic callback to their early “letter cars” of the mid 1950s. Those were a distinctly American “bodybuilder in a bespoke suit” sort of car, and both visually and underhood were quite unlike what Rolls was putting out at the time.

The seller has an interesting two-car fleet, possibly unique in all the world, given that he is also selling

I would love to drive this car, but the thought of owning it causes intense wallet puckering.

He was convicted of second-degree murder, reckless endangerment, and evidence tampering, and got a sentence that at his age might be tantamount to life in prison. Won’t bring his victim back, of course.

She learned to drive stick on the company car rather than yours? Smart kid and a real parenting win!

This one has been languishing almost a month in a wealth enclave within pleasure-driving distance of a huge market. Hard to tell whether it’s the asking price for a car with mostly silly “upgrades” and some neglect, or an ad that makes the seller come off as kind of a pill to deal with. Why choose?

Plus, and you have to do a lot of driving that plays to the advantages of the diesel to make up for the higher cost of fuel (about 50 cents a gallon more than regular gas, or about on a par with premium) and the various hassle factors and failure modes that modernity has brought to the once wonderfully simple diesel e…

Trump has often voiced opinions about technical subjects, generally revealing a deep lack of understanding of either complexities at scale (as in repatriating a globalized manufacturing industry) or the hidden flaw in his logic (e.g., the miles and mountains that separate Los Angeles from the water that Northern…

Ah, the G8, another much-to-like offering whose timing couldn’t have been more snakebit. It caught the peak of the yo-yo era of gas prices that was on the upslope throughout the life of this generation of GTO... and then came the Great Recession, and, all too soon, the end of the entire marque.  

I may be in a minority here, but I always liked the “muscle for grown-ups” look of these. The whatever-it-says windshield tint strip, the probably harder to remove decal of some kind on the backlight, maybe not so much. Dunno whether to try to rectify or just replace the smoked taillights.