As I recall the reviews, the first generation of these was pretty crude. Not that it couldn’t be entertaining, but north of $20K seems a bit steep.

Dear Kalyn,

I’m normally all for non-grayscale colors, and this is a sharp color, but here it just screams, “Hey world, I’m driving a LUMINA!!!” Which is not something I want to scream to the world.

Hyundai. Getting you to your Final Destination.

I know old trucklets are pulling crazy money, but the skimpy ad and the glamour filter on the photos are making me suspicious. ND.

When I graduated 37 years ago, they used that little park the school kind of wraps around. Washington Somethingorother.

Can’t beat those Italian ergonomics. If you can reach it, it’s good enough.

Straight, clean, low miles, fixable doors. If you’re shopping an Alfa, you’re choosing the pain that comes with it. NP.

Lexus RX. Never has a vehicle with premium pretensions showed so little effort at looking premium. The pinnacle of phoned-in anonymity.

It’s the hanging chad of NPOND votes.

Option 2 is for the Westie cultists who know they should click ND but can’t command their hands to do the deed.

Pluses: You’ll have the only one at any show or C&C you attend. Legitimate provenance.

Given the minor cult following for these, I think it’s priced right, even with the miles. Back when I had three youngins, I pined for one, but they were already hard to find. And it looks like kind of a kids-or-stuff proposition inside. Regret might have set in somewhere on the first family vacation or day trip to the…

Ah, mechanical keyboards. It’s distressingly close to 40 years since my first reporting job, when newsrooms were awash in kludgy hardware and software for filing and editing copy. The system we had was called Teleram, which used data cassettes (physically identical to audio cassettes) and had 8-inch monochrome…

Not for me, because I don’t want to sit in a Washington Commanders themed seat. But if all checks out and you’re ready for whatever the upkeep will be, NP I suppose.

The buzzkill of a big ol’ dent on your BMW, the pointless third row, the cloud of diesel suspicion...what’s not to like?

Whatever the vehicle’s reputation, at a near quarter-million miles I would buy with the hope, not the expectation, of many happy years and miles to come. $12.5K is expectation money for most folks. ND.

It’s clean and well kept, the market is still nuts, and I imagine there’s a San Francisco multiplier, so NP.

Crazytimes pricing, if everything checks out, I’ll go NP. These were stout cars, you should get your money’s worth in transportation with a side order of fun before it dies.

The 10th anniversary thing is of minimal interest except for the mechanical upgrades. But this is just objectively a lovely, well-kept, unmolested, barely broken-in car that you won’t be afraid to enjoy. NP.