Agree with your final points about the economy and demographics 100%.

I looked at the first picture and was ready to hate it, as I read through the description and looked further I could see myself having fun with this car, once or twice, riding along with my buddy who bought it.  Can't quite get to the point of actually buying something like this.  No dice for me.

I picked a bad day to miss NPOND.  My brother just bought an inoperative TR3 for over 10 grand.  The Morgan looks nicer than the TR, and it's a Morgan.  Nice price.

Truly awful list.  The SUV should be off the list or easy last.  His number one, the early DBS, has neither the class of the early cars, or the beauty or speed of some of the later cars, and would definitely be in my bottom five.  

i caught that too, I think they meant to say “through 2022"

Not an Jeep guy, but if people think they are just trim level differences and they are trying to sell one for $30k more than the other than would seem to be more of a Jeep problem than a buyer/public problem.

Hard to untangle the why?

At $18,500 the car better be damn near perfect and the miles much lower to even think about it. Now that I am thinking about it, seems like too much money for any 20 year old Excursion. Huge No Dice on this one.

I was all in until I got to the SMG issue. Cheap MR2. Somebody finally figured out that the mods don’t make it worth more, they make it worth less. Then we got to expensive transmission problem. Don’t want this bad enough to have to fix it. I mean, when people ask “what the hell is that?” It is one thing to be able to…

Well I guess laziness really doesn't pay off then.

Beautiful rare car. There was a time when Japanese cars were pretty low on the collector car totem pole. Recent prices of old Datsuns and even Hondas and Toyotas that aren’t that old reflect a seismic shift in this thinking. This is easy nice price,and should only go up over time. It’s obscurity is probably holding…

I think the car is gorgeous, or at least more interesting than the current trend of hypercars that all pretty much look the same. However, I think the interior is gaudy and awful.

I read a couple more stories before I found it, late model Nissan Rogue. So it is not like he was driving one of these huge trucks (normal new full size) or SUVs you can’t see pedestrians from.

All of them, cars should be operated via tactile switches, looks better, safer.

I will take the middle road here, some cars at 100,000 have a very high chance of becoming money pits at any moment, think German luxury brands. Most Hondas, Lexus, and case in point here, 90s 3.8 Buicks, and many others, if well cared for, are still reliable transportation.

I think it was supposed to be a general interest article because people often compare the cost of different means of transportation, and with the higher cost of gas lately a big part of the driving equation has changed, so maybe people would be interested in reading real world, recent cmparison. I kind of pulled that…

Came here to post same, very cool logo and a lot of history behind it.

Here are a couple slightly nicer, all things being relative. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/304140078409599/?ref=facebook_story_share

I know S2000s have gone nowhere but up the last few years, and it is a Honda, so probably still has some life left in it, but can't quite get past the miles and mods.  If it looked like it was pampered and kept stock I might be able to get past the miles.  As is a reluctant No Dice.

Yes, not an expert, but lived the era, Earth Wind and Fire needs to be on the list, maybe multiple times.