I will never stop being amazed at the moronic financial decisions people make.

But again, just because you can find similar examples for less, doesn’t mean that the price of this car isn’t a Nice Price as well.

Agree. $10k should be the top for this car/condition. Not rare, not exciting as in performance, meh-white.

This car isn’t worth arguing over so I’ll let your post be the last word.

I picked the comparable ones - GT convertibles, since we want to compares apples to apples. None of the cars listed, not even the ones that sold for half the price, have such high mileage, and all are in much better condition than the one listed above.

See image for comps - the only convertibles sold for 16, 12, and 8, and the ones at 12 and 16 were half the miles and one-owner, respectively (and in much better color combinations and overall shape).  Even the $8,750 one has far fewer miles and looks to be in much better condition.

I did some digging through BaT and I don’t see those higher asking prices. In the last year the ones that went for $14-15k had less than half the miles, on average, and were in much more desirable colors or were special editions. I’m not sure this is in line with market prices, $9-10k would be more in line.

Hard No Dice on this one. Dug through Bring-a-trailer to look through some comps since I wasn’t familiar with pricing on these. Similar cars with fewer miles sold for about half to 3/4 the price (between $7k and $9k). There just isn’t that big of a collectible market for these. No matter how well maintained or nicely…

The Swedish Sebring is here to start your week. Is it boring? Heck yeah. It’s is really boring? I can’t hear you. Heck yeah. A little louder. (Mild coughing noises, as things don’t seem to be getting any louder.) This is a fun car, huh? Are you feeling the excitement? (More coughing.)

This is an absolute NP for a tidy little hardtop convertible that looks to be in good cosmetic and mechanical shape. They’re unique enough that I still take a nice long look whenever I see one parked or driving around. Quirky top, quirky interior, quirky 5 cylinder engine.

Boot and bonnet! Such great British slang for the car. Honorable mention goes to “bit of welly” when telling someone to push the car further, or try harder in a race (though I guess this isn’t strictly a car slang term.)

I play this game all the time in my manual here in DC.

Not sure about this take, Rory - I’m shopping this weekend for an automatic car and doing it specifically because my wife cannot drive a manual and doesn’t want to learn, since driving in a big city already makes her nervous.

Counterpoint: a vehicle is a large expense and usually shared by the married couple. It’s a shared asset If one party refuses to drive stick and sets a hard line then not much else you can do other than dont buy a car or get a divorce. I would prefer to drive a stick and I probably will one day when I can afford to…

I was shot through my right forearm about 30 years ago. Shifting gears hurts after a while so I buy automatic transmission cars. I guess that’s an excuse but it wasn’t my wife who shot me so am I good?

My wife has no desire to learn to drive a stick, and it’s convenient to have an automatic that we can both drive. My solution is just to have another car that is a manual. Simple enough, but not the solution for everyone. 

I much prefer a stick in traffic. If you don’t just gun it every time traffic moves like most auto drivers you can pretty much drive with one pedal.

Yeah, but to get that you have to take the car, too.

I did some back of the napkin math, and the back of the Prowler has about 1.8 cubic feet of storage. You could put roughly 60 1-kilo (tightly packaged) bricks of cocaine back there. That means it would probably be worth around $800,000, assuming a kilo is worth between 13-15k.

I didn’t read a single damned word after the headline.