“What’s your best price” to me is the same as “Show me your cards”

To be fair, that’s not quite a showroom-stock car. At a minimum, it’s got a nice skid plate under it, and I suspect other modifications have been made as well.

I have never understood it. Our kids are on year 3 of using Amazon Fire tablets that cost less than $100 each, and also they can be transferred between cars!  They only use them on long trips, and even then, they don’t use them the whole time - by their own choice, no less. 

Totally agree. Sure, the spotters can communicate with the car they’re spotting for, but it does not eliminate the risk.

I kind of agree. As a very small, but perhaps relevant example: I love to jump off things at ski areas, and some of the easiest ways to go big (outside of the park) are off blind knolls. It would be stupid to do that without knowing what’s below - any other people, in particular - but with a spotter on the knoll, you…

Here with my popcorn for the train wreck of comments 

It’s hit or miss, HG issues can be had in any flavor Subaru, or not, depending on the alignment of the planets, so it seems. 

They don’t compare

When I was 15 my grandfather passed away; he lived about 600 miles away. In his barn was a running Willy’s CJ-5 and I thought for sure I had found myself my first car. But of course, it was a POS that had been used for plowing for 25 years already and had numerous issues, despite the fact that it ran and shifted fine.…

I like my 58 year old truck for many of the same reasons. The dash is... metal. There are no armrests, just the window sill. There’s... no headliner. No carpet. Door panels? Metal. The seat is about the only thing NOT metal, and it’s a rugged vinyl, I’ll probably replace it only when it eventually tears.

REGAL TOURX

I wonder if the base model has the old school 31" whip antenna and the higher trim levels have it integrated somewhere, which probably costs more - hence the old style on the base model.

Hey, I know that car! No, it’s not mine, or my wife’s. But it must live near me! 

There’s a septic truck I see regularly with a plate of “HNYWGN” - also in NH. 

If you have enough money, you just don’t care about that kind of depreciation. It’s what it costs to own the thing you want, that’s all. It doesn’t follow that you’re then bad at managing money, unless the depreciation hit puts you in a bad position. Someone buying a car like that probably might more in the stock…

I’m not sure you spelled any words right. 

Right, I feel bad for the guy but it’s because he clearly needs help - not just with getting rid of the cars...

I feel bad for the guy, but not because he’s being forced to get rid of the cars. I feel bad because, while he is no doubt a nice guy, he’s totally delusional about the condition and/or value of most of his cars. And that’s not all:

No. If you spend $6,900 on a car then sell it for $5,000 you have spent / invested / lost $1,900. The $5,000 number is mathematically correct but makes no sense in context. If you’re not selling it, then there are too many other unknowns to say what your ultimate profit or loss will be, other than it will for sure be…