PCP. It's a hell of a drug. Makes you Superman in everything but the invulnerability part.

Saab. Swedish Automobile. Always Broken.

I was going to say the AMC inline 6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_strai… But it really hasn't been in that many different makes, but it was in pretty much every single vehicle AMC and Jeep made for nearly a quarter of a century...

If I didn't know this thing actually existed, I'd be sure it's photoshopped.

Didn't they just trademark the name "EcoBEAST"?

Wow. Weird. 61-70%. And it's just a 2005 Forester XT.

I had a friend that was in a smallish hatchback. Truck behind her changed lanes too close to her, clipped her back bumper with the front of his semi, flipped her car sideways against his front bumper, and pushed her sideways a mile and a half down a busy Chicago-area freeway before she managed to throw enough things…

Came here to say exactly this. My wife has a 2010 Mitsubishi Outlander with a CVT. Besides being a gutless crapcan (4-cyl engine's power output is measured in mosquito farts and not in horsepower) the CVT has the paddle shifters which are a very nice option to have when descending steep hills in the snow.

Your grasp of the word "fart" as a derogatory prefix is quite impressive.

Star for "Hellkitten". Good work, sir!

Wow. That really blows. Oil problems and those stupid filter "banjo bolts" are the main reasons in these cars, from what I've heard. That, or bad luck.

Really, cause I just ticked over 230K on mine, and it's still going strong.

That's my car! Well, not MY car, but same color, same year, same scars on the front bumper (license plate "mount" leaves something to be desired on these).

I've always kinda liked these, and it would be a fun weekend car that shares enough cheap parts to be somewhat economical to keep running. There's one for sale by an elderly couple down the street. I saw how much they wanted for it, scoffed, checked blue book, found that they were well UNDER blue book. I would…

Worth it. In both cases.

To put this in perspective, the top trim model of my car only weighs 3,270lbs. It's a 2005 Forester XT, a 4-door, AWD, turbocharged SUV. I still have no idea how they got a 350Z to weigh that much.

I was unlucky enough to have bought a 2005.5 Jetta with the 2.5 I-5 new. Timing chain stretched at ~75K (almost 4K miles exactly out of warranty, IIRC). Threw timing off. Motor was never the same again. Luckily there are tons of junkyard 2.5's available. They all need or have recently had timing chain service /…

I think it warrants a pass. The interior looks like it was well cared for. I'm more interested in what's peeking out of that garage in the second pic, honestly.

What if your kid was in an ambulance that was stuck behind this shit and died en-route to the hospital because some fucktards wanted to do donuts? Would you have a problem with it then?

My 2005.5 had the 2.5 as well. These engines are known (VW hasn't acknowledged it) to have a defect where the timing chain (upper one in my case) stretches and will begin to lose time at around 70k miles (warranty went to 60k, sneaky bastards). Most reports were for 2005.5 and 2006 models, so maybe they had it…