Agreed. Objectively better, but not necessarily better to me. I have old old cars I drive for fun, I could daily them, but really wouldn’t want to. My regular daily driver is 20 years old and has all the tech and safety I need. About the only gripe is relatively bad MPG to performance ratio compared to most anything…

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I lukewarm nice price. Fix the minor cosmetic flaws and enjoy it. Cheap enough and depreciated out enough that maybe worth rolling the giant, cold hearted teutonic dice on how long before an expensive repair or two pops up.

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I think that is what I meant when I said “see also...” Nice try Peter

Like the username, I had a '67 BGT.  Hopelessly rusty when I optimistically bought it many years ago, still was a fun ride.

You can say that about most any car from decades ago, yet a significant chunk of the population still wants them, enough to drive the price of a old cars well over the practical comparison test that you are applying.

I was ready to go my usually used premium German car, bad buy, expensive to maintain depreciating asset. But other than what I just said I am having trouble finding fault with this one. Looks like a nice car, reasonable miles, good condition, probably owned by somebody who garaged and maintained it.

How is this no dice?, let me count the ways:

Oui Oui

You really get an idea of the car’s quality and what the French call I don’t know what when you look under the hood (that is a stunning engine compartment) and in the interior. This is a classy, exclusive vehicle. I have no idea what the market is exactly, but assume a lot. I am giving this a nice price. Facel Vega…

My rule is to.never buy a rapidly depreciating, out of warranty, expensive to repair German car.  This one hits in two out of three, but is pretty much depreciated out, and it looks like it was adult owned and cared for.  Why the hell not?

If you have a business you can also get a tax break for buying the over 6000 pound vehicles even if a luxury car that just takes you to and from work.  A big chunk of the upper middle class loves these rules too.  They won't be going away anytime soon.  The government incentives EVs, but put much more money into…

On today’s market this looks to be priced so low that it is a scam, although scam listings usually don’t have that much car and contact information. Second guess is something major undisclosed wrong with the vehicle, or several middling sort of problems like HVAC or battery drain.  Maybe a Seinfeld car with a stank…

Dry grip for sure, serious autocrossers will shave new street tires to reduce squirm and get better performance. Rubber generally gets harder as it heat cycles and gets older. Which probably has an effect on winter traction as well.

Man, you guys with the bad Borgward Isabella stories are killing me.

I will renominate my Mom’s Ford Tempo. Oh, it was fairly reliable compared to a lot of the cars listed here, but so terrible to drive (and look at) that you kind of wished it would die already and put us all out of our misery.

What the eff. I know it is the obvious and expected answer, but you have a big family hauler, you have another vehicle that can hold the kids and their gear when needed, easily, without worry of turning an ankle if you step out of it wrong. Current generation Accord is a big car. Boomer checks in and says when we were…

Well you might say it was my dad’s Renault Dauphine, which had thirty some horsepower, our family’s first second car, but I thought it was kind of quirky and cool.