Late to the party, but performance versions of big truck and SUVs. You end up with worse gas mileage, higher maintenance and and a muted “performance” driving experience because your car is so far off the ground. I made a similar comment about today’s NPOND AMG Mercedes SUV. If you have ever taken off in a commercial…

Wow, you don’t usually see high end cars in this bad of shape, but that car is indeed beyond hope. Bodywork is bodywork, it is a lot of time and effort, but metal is metal, and it can be done, with a welder and perseverance.

Man this thing is boring looking, it looks pretty much exactly like some other generic SUV from the 90s or early 200os, so generic I can’t remember the name of it. If it didn’t have the Mercedes grill everybody would think you are driving a Pontiac SUV.

Having been in college in the mid eighties I can confirm that these vehicles were quite popular with Sorority sisters, wasn’t just a stereotype. This one looks pretty clean and correct. Cars seems clean, will give it a nice price.

I guess it depends on what “feeling like a new car” means to you, if it means having all the bells and whistles of the latest and greatest or is it clean, and nothing clunks or shakes or feels like it is going to fall off, it drives smooth and feels well built. I have an older Lexus, and I have looked at newer, but…

Unsurprisingly, the CL ad is gone, not exciting, but price and condition (and miles) is this market, easy nice price.

I have shopped these on my infinite CL playlist for years. This looks like a VGC car, if it runs and all the accessories and bits work with no issues this is easy nice price, as ones that look this good are usually over $10K, but prices are certainly all over the map. I put these and Porsche 928s in the same pool, a…

That is awesome, would give more stars if I had them to give.  I remember the Bob Tullius Group 44 XJ-S’s being pretty successful.

I agree, although I think the emphasis isn’t what is used to be, all the talk about EVs seemed to focus on range, range anxiety is a thing, but if you can charge as fast as you can fill a gas tank, and you can buy the EV for the same price as a comparable ICE vehicle, I bet you could sell a lot more.  There are early…

The disparity among regions really hit home with me when I read somewhere (here I think) that the Tesla model Y was the best selling car in California. Out here in the Midwest seeing a Tesla is no longer a novelty, but I would say it has gone from being about as common as a Ferrari to as common as a Volvo or something…

I can’t give you a star for that, but I did chuckle

Exactly, this car looks like it was painted back in the day when cheap paint jobs and bondo over rust were more common than cutting out the metal and doing it right, then put away and not used for daily duty or exposed to salt, so the bad hasn’t come back through.  I bought a similar 2002 in about 2015, but I paid a…

This car shows as sold on eBay with a best offer. It had been listed repeatedly with a slowly descending price. This looks like a cheaply painted over rust many years ago car. I should know, I bought a ‘74 2002 in similar condition years ago for cheap. I got to enjoy driving a decent looking 2002 for not much money.

It is weird, but I think most all modern supercars are ugly, so it doesn’t really stand out in any way to me.  Also, I saw one in person a couple years ago and thought it looked better in person than in pictures.

Yeah, pretty amazing that even on into the ‘90s people paid extra to buy cars with very big and bold graphic and lettering packages like this, and manufactures vied to have their cars selected for same...and people daily drove them with pride. Different times. 

I have a low mile Lexus IS 300 for daily duty. It is still a very nice sports sedan, with neutral RWD handling and all the creature comforts I need. For fun I have a modified Triumph TR250 that sees both autocross and nice Sunday drive duty. I am content.  I was going to add pretty pictures but can't get the image…

Sure it is, you know, for all those kids that grew up wanting a Daihatsu wagon, but couldn’t quite afford one.

Put stock wheels (and hubcaps?) if you can find them, and lower the price to $6k and we can talk.  As is no dice.  I like the JDM mirrors, much as some complain about this placement it works really well, broader field of view and more in you regular line of sight when driving.

I was not aware of that, but still I see it all the time on forums like this, when someone says we need a true small truck, someone inevitably will say, you can’t build a small truck anymore, it won’t meet modern crash standards, it has to be big and heavy. To which I always answer, Miata, if a car can do it, why not…

I need a three row 6000 pound SUV because I have a kid and a dog.