I don’t understand the hype behind these things. I get it for the Delica and the Toyota ace vans, since those are super quirky and have all kinds of interesting features and offroad trims. The VW vans just seem like any other boring minivan to me.

Phenomenal price, easy NP. This is a V12 car for V8 vantage money - can’t go wrong!

Agreed, that sentence seemed like PR nonsense. I sincerely doubt this car (or any production-based car) can do anything even close to as well as an F1 car can. Maybe on a long enough straight this would eventually pull away in a drag race, but it would take several miles to get there.

I’m having a hard time understanding why you would get this over any other FWD sport compact from the 90s. It’s incredibly ugly from every angle, isn’t known for being particularly reliable, and is certainly going to be much slower and less engaging to drive than basically any equivalent FWD 2-door from this era from…

Worth noting the newest Acuras don’t do that anymore, or at least the TLX doesn’t. They integrate the whole sensor in the badge now so there isn’t that weird glass-looking area around it.

That makes sense. I actually didn’t realize Bud was sold in the UK at all - I assumed there would be no market for it there. 

The only investment-ish E39s left (besides the M5 obviously) are the wagon, or the 540 m-sport, preferably with a manual. This spec with this many miles will never be valuable. ND all day.

Classic Mini fans would probably use this as their biggest argument that the BMW-made cars are not “real” Minis, because the creators were drinking Budweiser instead of room-temperature English beer.

This has been a shell of its former self for years. The show has always been scripted, but the last decade or so (including the final seasons of TG with the trio) have felt like they are just going through the motions and reading from a script instead of really making it believable. Their spin-off shows are really…

His asking price is in the right ballpark - looks like BaT had several sales in recent history for around 60-65k. Personally, if I was in the market to drop that much on an old Ferrari like this, I’d drop the extra 15k to get a 328 instead.

The S-class in general has always depreciated rapidly, though not quite this rapidly. It looks like a used 2020-2022 S-class goes for 60-90k depending on spec.

Agreed. Their facelifts have been perfect too - subtle enough that you can’t immediately tell it’s different, but significant enough that it looks newer and keeps with the times. I really love how these have aged.

That is genuinely a toss-up and is probably situation dependent. Unfortunately for us, R34 GTRs usually go for well north of 120k if they are in good condition, so that question sort of answers itself.

They have been consistently updating and improving it throughout its lifespan too, in ways that often don’t show up on the spec sheet. It seems to be part of how things work in Japan - instead of making a new model, you keep steadily improving one you already had for a longer period (see also: lots of the cars people…

Trans fluid is also $700 for a full change on the DCT (just the fluid itself, no labor or anything). I do like these cars and would love to own one someday but that is no joke.

100% the Lexus RX, you were spot on in your original assertion. Anytime I go to the dealer for service, I see at least a dozen of those tooling around the dealer lot with a median driver age of at least 75. 

NP. These are fundamentally pretty good cars. Infinitis are not worth the money new, but you can get a great deal on them used and this seems like a good example despite the miles.

Some of these already exist. There are several EJ-powered 914s out there, and there are quite a few X1/9s with K20/24s (the F20 does not really make sense for that car since it is made to mount longitudinally and the K is already transverse). A k-powered 944 would be cool as well, though it seems people are going a…

That is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I would bet that 20 years from now, these will be seen the same way we see all the goofy low-volume EVs from the 90s and 00s that no one has heard of before, like the electrek uncar.

Is this an all-time record for depreciation? I can’t think of any other car that even comes close.