There is nothing specifically desirable about this car except its oddly nice condition. So do you pay a huge premium for that and then not drive it in the hope that at some point you can also sell this weird, non-desirable but great shape old car to someone else ten years from now? Or do you drive it regularly and…

Everybody loves a V12, but these cars are an absolute nightmare to work on — even 20 years ago I knew multiple people who had V12 XJ coupes gathering dust as permanent project cars in their garages — and adding in an ugly not-convertible with a top that’s unobtanium makes this probably the least desirable of the form.…

The mileage seems like a good excuse to drive this one.  Let the speculators watch their 1k mile examples sit, take this one and attack the back roads every weekend. 

Because $26k is A LOT closer to $25k than $50k

Kia Stinger is the easy answer here

I think you meant $7 Gran.

How does a 6-digit odometer roll over? Does it seriously have 1,057,917 miles?

Lol, the monthly fuel costs would be over $20,000 for that monster. That and she might need a ladder to get in.

Clearly:

Nothing says luxury like whipping out the checkbook for out-of-warranty repairs on a 10 year old Mercedes.

To each their own, but I’d run from a Fiat. I get the nostalgia. I had one for a very short period of time. The day of acquisition was happy, despite knowing I stepped into a pile of doo doo. The day I passed it along was even happier. Of all of the vehicles I’ve owned, the Fiat was the only one I do not regret…

Plus I actually don’t like the swap to black exterior trim. If I’m driving a 40 year-old car in mint condition, I want the original chrome trim.

The Lexus is a great recommendation, and the best way of getting what this guy is going for. Thing is, as Richard Hammond put so well on the old TG, something feels weird about dumping that sort of money on a Lexus.

I had my left foot amputated after a run in with a copperhead in 2017.

Yeah you could put another 10 grand in it to get in decent shape and have a collector car easily worth 7-8 grand.

Now, that makes last weeks Murano Cabrio look like a deal, and super reliable car too.

THE F”ING FAA IS DISTRACTED FROM SOLVING ACTUAL PROBLEMS BY CREATING PROBLEMS WHERE NONE HAVE EVER EXISTED.

While the FAA continues to collapse the boundaries for model aircraft and small drone pilots, they practically beg for this sort of carnage to continue. Last summer there were 3 mid-air collisions between small planes. The FAA could mandate ADSB-IN alerting systems but they chose not to.

This has been tracked hard. The engine, seat split, and front air dam are likely from track time. The clean rims indicate it had different wheels mounted for track day. Run away.

If the seller managed to blow the engine before 50K, how else has this been abused? And how do you get a split in the seat that quickly? Something ain’t right here. ND.