I think it’s somewhere between OJ-Nicole Brown Simpson and Christopher Walken-Natalie Wood.

I suppose you set aside the rules for ‘halo’ cars that a company puts out more as a statement and reputation-builder than a profit generator. Of course dass why Honda made both the S2000 and the CR-V, and held on to making a small volume of S2Ks well after it made economic sense.

Did you say usable?? Sir. One does not USE a XK120. One builds a marble pedestal, anointed with fresh pressed Algerian sandalwood oil, and then very gently lifts their rare exotic onto it using an auto lift wrapped in crimson velvet, while hooded monks chant something appropriate in Latin.

It sounds like we’re saying the same thing.  And I think you’re on the money about how motivated the seller is. 

You lost me there. That generation 5-series with Euro-spec bumpers is a modern classic. Give me one of those in good aesthetic condition, with a six speed stick, that can also hulk out when your right foot gets mad, and I’ll be a happy driver.

This right here! Someone lost their mind in exactly the right way here, and for $10k (and if I had space in my garage) I’d give it a look. But one. does. not. buy. someone. else’s. project. for twenty thousand dollars. 

Oh no. Everyone knows you need a ‘good’ driver. Shelby’s version of explaining was to put Ford in the passenger seat of a brutal race-spec’d GT and give him a visceral feel for how the car at the edge of its envelope can scramble your brain and fill your pants.

The car pictured here reminds me of that scene in Ford v. Ferrari where Carrol Shelby demonstrates for Henry Ford Jr. why you want a talented driver in a thoroughbred racing car. I have done some stupid things without thinking twice, but even imagining the performance limits of that Indy car makes my balls shrivel.…

I don’t see how anyone could knock this one. Have a mechanic take the elbow-length gloves to it. If the car doesn’t have any hidden surprises then hell yes it’s worth $5,700. Keep a Honda for your DD, drive the convertible on weekends or highway trips when the weather’s nice and have it towed to the junker without…

Someone with $5,700 to their name should not even think about owning a 350+ HP Mercedes convertible.  This is fck-it-why-not money. 

Didn’t the entire body threaten to leave the frame when you used the brakes?

Yes, but we’re not disagreeing. Plenty of kinks (if you define the word as ‘odd’ things that sexually arouse a person) are unethical, disapproved of, or wildly illegal. Desire doesn’t follow logic or good sense. For a lot of people the simple act of transgressing is itself arousing (how many people do you know who had…

Violating taboos is a kink. 

The 300 isn’t the only car that Chrysler sells. 

Luxury cars have more moving parts. Actuators and electronic switchwork have a lot more points of failure than a manual seat adjusting lever. Chrysler especially tries to cram in luxury features for bottom dollar, so I imagine the little stuff can have lots of gremlins in it.

I owned an ‘08 Fit and loved the hell out of it. The only problem is that Fits REALLY hold their value. $10k doesn’t buy you as clean and new a car as it would if you buy a Corolla. Same problem with a Civic.

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Weird - my Ronin fantasies involve a nitrous’ed S8, Sean Bean, and a barf bag.