If this were closer to me I would be looking. The CL add is down so I can’t scroll through the pics. The rust seems to be limited to the tire well(?). The rest of the car looks serviceable cosmetically with a little clean up and attention. The synchros are probably bad in second. I have had cars like that, rev…

So these might have been nice daily driver’s back in the day with a slushbox, but for most anybody who wants it now, I think they probably want the driving experience of a once mid-sized now smallish rwd sporty sedan with three pedals. Don’t know if a manual gets it up to nice price, but it may get get you up into go…

Salvage Title— I am much more concerned on a car that is five years old or newer than a 20 year old car. A newish car is going to take a lot more damage to get totalled, a bump to the fender and headlight and scrape to the door can put 15 year old cars in salvage title territory.

To be Mr. Consistency here, this one follows the golden rule of ten, over ten years old, over 100,000 miles, under $10,000 by quite a bit. Well maintained Subaru Legacy GT (the family man’s WRX) with a stick for $8,500, easy nice price.  An outback of similar miles and year will cost as much or more these days.

We had Fit for 16 years.  Replaced it with a Crosstrek, which seems huge to me and is plenty big for a family of 4.  It is classified or marketed as a"compact SUV".  Nuts.  The Crosstrek nearly matches the Fit on highway MPG, but does worse in town.

Exactly, as I said in another post, it is the culture of me over the culture of we, taken to a great extreme, and in some circles quite fashionable to be a selfish a$$hole.

The U.S. has become the culture of me rather than the culture of we, and unapologetically I might add.  Huge vehicles make me safer, putting my kid who is just learning to drive makes my kid safer, and everybody around them less safe.  In addition wastes resources and hurts the environment more, wears the roads out…

My Saab Sonett had a Ford Taurus V-4, and the later four cylinder was developed by Triumph, so yes, certainly some of the major components were outsourced.

So, there is a lot to process here. It’s a manual wagon in good shape which is definitely a good thing.

I think the comment about BMWs looking like Matchbox cars meant Hot Wheels cars.  Matchbox are generally scale models, Hot Wheels generally have oversized, low profile wheels and exaggerated or modded features.  Which got me to thinking, maybe modern car designers owned a lot of Hot Wheels as a kid.

I talk to a lot of people who say that is what they like, and it is such a no win, nuclear arms race kind of thing it is frustrating. We need more nukes because Russia has more nukes. We need to be in big battering ram of a vehicle that can see over other big battering ram vehicles. I also think it is the overall…

Maybe because I like them I am biased, but I agree, a new Ferrari sorta says “I want to attract younger and prettier people than I normally could in the worst way that probably just want to glom onto me for my money, and I don’t care”. Rolling up in a BMW 3.0CS says I have some taste and class.

It is vehicles like this that make me realize I don't dislike trucks, I dislike lifted, three ton, personal transportation devices.  This was built to do work and looks like it.  No rust, and simple,solid mechanicals.  Nice Price.

I will add that the styling of these things has really grown on me.  Mostly because most anything with a low beltlines look so much better to me than modern cars.

Yeah, beat me to it, I was expecting a low mile, stock car.  While this thing might not be Fubar, none of the stuff added makes me want to pay more for it.  I was maybe in with the first exterior pic, and definitely out with the first one of the interior.

Maybe add a little color...don’t know how anybody can call that ugly.

Although I am not an expert on these, this 80s model feels much more like a GM parts bin model than the earlier cars.  That coupled with the smaller size and FWD may actually make it a more practical car, but a less desirable Cadillac.  Looks to be a nice example, but I don't see it as desirable enough to demand the…

I felt like I was already windy enough with my comments, but yes, exactly, an asthmatic MGB, common as dirt will set you back as much as this TR8.  Which makes the TR seem like a pretty good deal.

The TR7 first came out as a coupe only, it was a modern sports car after years of archaic roadsters from England, performance adequate for the day, not much different than the contemporary Porsche 924 and RX7, and a comfortable if not fancy cockpit. They sold very well for the first couple years.

Yeah, maybe it is a generational thing, but the C3 had way too long a run, and during that run it lost power and looks. The C4 was considered a revelation when it came out, and power and performance improved throughout the production run. The C5 is also fugly, so that doesn’t help either.