Easy nice price for most anybody looking for reliable, cheap transportation.  The needle should be close to 100% NP on this one.

Agree, limited appeal, especially here in the United States.  Maybe more in Europe, but don't see much of a market/interest for this.  No Dice

I don’t think it has to be rear wheel drive, there was that Lotus Elan in the early 90s, but for me a sports car is a Smallish two seater, or a low sling 2 + 2 with a very occasional back seat.

Maybe, just maybe if you wanted a nice one to put in a museum or drive off trailers to shows, but it is Bi-turbo and it will probably break if you look at it wrong in the garage. I looked at it one in the late 80s on a cheapo small gravel covered used car lot. While it was only a few years old it looked like it had…

It all look to be in order, I think these are nice looking cars, kind of a understated street cred look.  Spend a couple hours cleaning under the hood (I am not going nick the seller too much on this, at least he got the shiny bits clean and didn't leave two weeks worth of fast food and convenience store crap in the…

Not terrible, but that is a lot of miles and peeling clear coat for eight grand and change, nice price at $5-6k, but can't quite get to the asking price.  No dice.

Yes, or the owners are people for whom a few thousand dollars is pocket change, so quick conversation “we really should sell the old diesel since nobody drives it anymore” “ok, I will take it to the shop and have the maintenance done” tells local shop guy who they use and trust to get it ready to sell. $5000 later car…

Why do you spend $5k on a car you are going to list for $8k and sell for $7-7500 most likely. Was it worth $2500 before the work was done? I know not everything is done as a strictly “rationale economic equation” basis. and I understand wanting to sell a decent car to somebody, like of the brakes or tires are bad you…

It seems to be in nice shape, rare, convertible, 5 speed, talks to you, Radwood eligible, but....yeah...no.

That is the vibe I get, not giving them my CC # ever.

Well I am a lifetime old British sports car guy and I love small light and agile, but despite my love of the type, and the Elan ranks right up there as one of the best of the type, this is not the droid I am looking for.  Overpriced and then there is the whole seller/ad thing.  Just no.

Good call on the flame suit, never occured to me anybody would think those are good looking.

I thought the latest generation Miata looked good in pictures, but when I saw it in the flesh it looked too tall and stubby. The hardtop version fixes those issues and looks much better to me.  The Fiata looks better too, but no longer available new.

Do the mods void the warranty? Would make a huge difference to me if I were seriously looking at it. Google says BMW factory is four years and 50,000.

My first thought was, wow that has depreciated a lot in 7,000 miles.  Second thought is there is a lot more room for it to fall.  But if you want one and don't care if it is brand new these seems like a decent deal.  The mods seem fairly tasteful and don't detract from the car (I had no idea it was modified from the…

There seem to be an inordinate number of people who seem to have the smarts or ability or whatever it takes to make a lot of money, but no corresponding skills on what to do with it.

Having lived most of my life with manual windows, and remembering the crappy, slow unreliable power windows on many cars in the 70s, holding a button or four for a few seconds isn’t that big a hardship.  Whiners

Yeah, the concept is ok, but every car that I have had with it, there is no discernible step between controlled up down and auto up down.  Our relatively new Subaru is the worst, but my old Lexus is bad too, as has been every other car that has it.  I would rather there was no auto up down because it is so poorly…

Would you be better off spending five grand more and getting a spider that is a little less rough around the edges (or just not rusty)? Sure. But not everybody has the extra five grand to spend all at once. A running driving Alfa at $3k is nice price if you are an impecunious kid who wants something interesting or an…

I know you didn’t ask me, but boo er here too. I wasn’t a fan of early 70s full size American land yachts when growing up either, and I am still more of a fan of small, stylish and sporty stuff. But they have a certain appeal now. Not so much nostalgia (my closest encounter was a huge two door Buick my then girlfriend…