My wife had one of these as a hand-me-down from her father. It would take a LOT to make $13.5K a nice price. This doesn't quite make it.

Is that paint really shiny or is that a blingtastic strip of chrome above the grille?

They set them on fire at the factory now?

So is that Lexus in the picture known as the Relentless Pursuit?

The lower front fascia just looks wrong. What's with that giant lip?

@IFTNFS: If the owner can get the wheels unstuck and get inside, he can look for a parking lot and do some glazed donuts.

There are few things as sad as prodigious, misdirected talent. It's lovingly crafted. It just should not have been.

GTA IV Pittsburgh: Squirrel Hill Edition.

To me it's not about being a purist or not. From most angles, I love the FF. But I've been looking at it all day, and I still spontanously chuckle at that face every time. It's like the Mitsuoka Orochi—just ludicrous.

Is that regular or kilowatt hours?

@Der Wunderbar: Yes. I was in love until I saw that. I actually busted out laughing, like when my daughter goes cross-eyed.

For a Citroen cultist, NP, I'm sure. To me, it looks like a slammed hearse. Cool car, no doubt, but if I wanted a big, floaty wagon, give me a Roadmaster or something.

More common, I think, for local governments to set ridiculously low speed limits. Along my route to work, there are some favorite roads for people bailing from the interstate to avoid congestion. Some of them have ridiculous speed limits that only the most patient drivers can observe—in one case, 20 on a road that…

Seeing these pics, I have to say, this is a handsome car in a distinctively Japanese way. It doesn't have the heat of something Italian, doesn't reek of heritage like something British, but it speaks its own language very nicely.

I've sort of done this in super-slo-mo on the nasty little hill leading up to my road. When snow/ice+gravity is too much for the fwd, and the backward slide begins, the trick is rotating the car to go nose first down the hill. So no, I haven't done it for fun.

Along the scenic but not very wealthy country road near me, somebody parks a daily driven white 944 on the grass/dirt shoulder. Rain or shine, snow or sleet. Sometines it gets plowed in. Not that Porsches are rare around here, but this is a very odd place to find one.

If it's generally solid, repaint it (or not), fix the questionable mods, clean it up, and you'll make your money back. If you're inclined to go into that business.

If Ferrari assigned a junior designer to do a take on the 924. Meh.

If he's tinpot enough to lack his own driver, how about a BYD S8 for the that ersatz Benz look. Couldn't find a price, but I'm sure it comes in under the limit.

@Secretone: Yeah, I know. Just make me think of 'fail.'