The internet was a mistake.

I owned a 1st gen RX-7 way back when. The rotary was like having a turbine under the hood—sucked for low-end torque, but did well at higher RPMs for its less-than-huge HP.  It’s a fun engine to rev.

It’s a process.

That’s the thing, either they’ll incentivize you to take one you don’t really want, or you’ll have people coming saying “you don’t have a blue one that I want, what’ll you do for me on this black one instead?” Either way they’re making less money. And now with actual inventories people are less willing to wait for an…

It had a tiny engine/generator (GM EcoTec?) and wasn’t the exhaust literally by the driver side window?

I do put some of the blame for grayscale sports cars on car manufacturers, but mostly on dealers honestly. Carmakers have a lot of power in setting trends. What have some of the color trends been on sports cars? Murdered out (made easy by blackout trim from the factory), matte black, and non-metallic grays like…

Bring back the 90s color splashes and jazz waves over everything. Everything.

Fine. I’ll take the hood ornament too. 

Only if parked in the wrong neighborhood.

I was about to make a joke about hiding the plates when the VIN is viewable to all, but he’s made up the VIN. And that’s enough for me to say that I’m just not interested in working with this seller. ND.

Can I just have the headlights? 

KBB value is completely meaningless for something like this. It barely means anything for cars that are actually common. It’s worth whatever someone will pay for it, and the Internet makes it a lot easier to find that special someone who really, really wants it.

Jalopnik will never recommend a Tesla because they are not able to separate the politics from the car.

I love MkI/MkII VeeDubs. And this one contains a nice bit of kit. While I’d love to drive this one to enjoy what I liked about these lightweight pocket rockets one more time, $18 grand is just too much for me to spend for a fleeting 35 year old nostalgia kick.

Even other “off road” capable trucks would have a hard time in that situation. Just another example of, just having money doesn’t make you intelligent.

Volvos are wonderful cars that suck. I owned 2 of them, and I worked at a Volvo dealership for 10 years. I still miss my S90 T6 Inscription, but I’m also pretty clear eyed about how often it was in the shop for warranty work. It was pretty infuriating. And being on the inside, I know it wasn’t just my particular car,…

Toyota in the standard of reliability and nothing else. The driving experience and materials are awful and the only reason 90% of buyers put up with them is because the cars run forever and the owner hates driving anyway.

Interchange is also much lower in Canada , a card transaction that costs 3% here is going to be closer to a 1% fee in Canada.  So there isn’t as much to bake in.

The headline uses a really misleading statistic. The car STARTS with 73% of EPA range based on their undisclosed black box criteria. If you look at the actual article, it shows that Tesla’s average 90% of its battery capacity after 3 years- right in line with your car.

The required sample size for 99% confidence on a population of 1 million is just over 16K, or about 1.6% of the population.