I missed this one too. I have a somewhat hopped up Triumph TR250 as my fun car, and a 2002 Lexus IS300 as my comfortable and practical daily. If I had tons of money would I do different? Probably, but I have enough to upgrade pretty painlessly to a more modern daily now and I don’t have any great desire too. I really…

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I learned a little about the models post 90s. Agree it is not a bad list, however, unless the difference from bottom to top of the list is razor thin, it seems a little strange that the first short wheelbase cars are near the bottom of the list and the next iteration with the extended wheelbase towards the top.

I have driven pre 964s and I find them to be wonderful driver’s cars. No they are not fast or I suppose comfortable by modern standards, but they are responsive, the light front end makes steering response like nothing most people will ever drive, and the view down the hood with the fender headlight bulges placed…

I didn't pay that much attention to these, but pretty much assumed the same.

Its a very late model car in stock condition.  I don't know what the price is supposed to be, but it is very easy to check KBB or your value website of choice and look online for cars for sale for comparisons.  Partly I guess just because I am more of an old car guy, but this seems like a less fun way to play the game.

Kind of a weird ad. I have seen plenty of ads that say “don’t waste my time” “no tire kickers” or “want to see it go to a good home”. But “Due to a high volume of inquiries, please text only if you are very serious. Include information about yourself, how you will pay, why you want the car, etc.”

I thought of that but also of the driver. Sounds like you did a great job, but I don’t think I would have the guts to compete in a bike or even take a liter bike out on a track and stretch it’s legs.

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.