Lol, no I thought MY post was the on that sounded rude. Not you. It was a critique of myself.

I read my reply earlier, and it sounds rule.  I apologize.  I did not mean it as a personal criticism. You clearly have your life together, and you’re, you know, good.  I simply prefer to keep all systems functional, even ones I don’t use.

I looked back at this and the tone is rude; I’m sorry. My preference is to keep all systems functional and working. If you’re living in San Jose, you’ve got your life together. It wasn’t a personal criticism, it was a limited critique on your automotive maintenance preferences.

It is conceivable that there is a soft exception for convertibles. But...sorry, no, my eyes are squinting about this. You live in San Jose, so you have money. But you don’t fix your own car? It’s...well, I don’t get not having a fully-functional car.

Confirming. I made about $20k off the five I bought to resell. (A Golf, two Jettas, a Passat, and a convertible Beetle).

There’s no way it made sense to keep any of them, especially if you drove them until the program ended. The money was so good, especially if you owned it before dieselgate happened. I guarantee you…

Everything works except the AC? That’s all you need to know.

As a man who has had periods in his life when the AC was broken, let me tell you exactly what that means: “I am so poor, I cannot maintain this car. I have let every piece of this car wear out, even the parts that separate man from beast. The tires are worn…

Well, a VAG not under warranty....I’ve done it many times. A mistake every time VAG isn’t buying them back at a premium.

But I still do it.

It does! Any purchase under $1,000 does not constitute “buying” a new car for purposes of Jalopnik law. And, beyond this not constituting a “buy”, acquiring a car that doesn’t run is also acquisition of parts rather than a “car”.

Jalopnik Law 504: Never buy* another man’s project.

*For purposes of this section, the term “buy” shall mean to pay “real money”.

The term “real money” shall be defined as any amount over $1,000.

Notwithstanding the above, this statute shall under no circumstances forbid the buying, as that term is defined in this…

As the proud 7th owner of a 2008 GTI, I can tell you what it’s like to have a car that’s been used to deliver pizza and generally been beaten like a red-headed stepchild.

Awesome.  Until it dies.  Which it did.

This is the correct answer. When I last bought a significantly less-impressive used car for my own fleet, I opened the glove box and found the owner’s manual had little sticky tabs on the pages about maintenance.

I was sold.  The car was a tad boring (an older Highlander Hybrid, for my wife), but what I bought was the…

I adore VWs, but I have a very specific reason. When I sit in a GTI, the seat happens to be the exactly right shape. I can drive for hours in perfect comfort. I sit in my 4-cylinder Camry (*spits on ground) and it’s all wrong. Sure, it’s quiet and reliable, but it’s just an appliance. I don’t feel like I’m sitting in…

Have never understood the fascination with these things; they weren’t all that appealing when new. Now they’re old and slow and worse than a comparably priced 10-years-newer Honda. Hard ND.

No Dice. 141k miles...and has this guy ever even heard of a wheel brush?

Sorry, to cap $5,000 for a miata, it’s got to be perfect or turbo with those miles.  And even then, no.

Exactly.   If you’re going to burn $30k for a year in a cool car, how about burning $20k of depreciation and $10k of extra interest payments on something Italian? 

I love it.  Just not at this price.

Automatic valuations before subjective review:

Toyota under 150k miles: $800

Cool car. But those miles. A car with 175k is a few years from 200k.

This isn’t 6 thousand.  It’s sixTEEN thousand.  Hard No Dice, regardless of how clean, how well kept.  Sixteen thousand dollars buys a lot of something else.

Well, it’s almost a philosophical question...can there be a Nice Price that one with the means would never buy?

I agree with you, and even though I literally wouldn’t take it for free as a daily, because the maintenance would crush me more than a car payment on a reasonable Toyota, I still believe this can be called…

Is it intellectually honest to vote Nice Price on something you would never acutally buy yourself? Well, I did.

The interior I love, but while some have compared it to a Nissan, I see Ford Probe. It’s...it’s no one’s dream car. It’s a compromise on looks at $65k, pure and simple.