A stick first-generation 3-door RAV4 was absolutely an entertaining drive. I loved mine, and wish I hadn’t traded it off.

Did you see Friday’s NPOCP? A match made in heaven.

The 3-door version is much, much rarer.

These cars are prized by collectors. $7500 is a good price for it.

*fwap*

But the good news is that at least after 1980 (when they ditched the original Chrysler-sourced ACC II unit, which has a servo made of unobtainium in it) they’re not hard to fix, and convert to R134 easily enough.

What a hell of a thing to do to an otherwise nice 126. And the A/C systems on those aren’t hard to fix, either.

I’m on my second diesel crossover, both M-class Mercedes. I’m going to be looking high and low for another diesel when this one needs replacing several years down the line.

<MontgomeryScott> It’s *green*. </MontgomeryScott>

That Mercedes 107 could be anywhere from 1975 to 1985. You’d have to look in the passenger compartment to tell further. (The bumpers were from 1974 on, but I don’t think those wheels were available in 1974.) It doesn’t have the air dam of a 1986-up 107. There’s no good way to tell them apart from the outside aside…

Just another example of why I’ll never give the Ford Motor Company a dime of my money, even indirectly.

Sure would, since the first Pinto was a 1971 model.

Merciful $DEITY. I had one of these for a while. Its only virtue was that I could get it for $125 with a blown brake booster, so it had been sitting. I can’t speak to its off-roading virtues, but as a daily, it sucks: the short wheelbase and stiff suspension make for a very pitchy ride. And that engine...well, it…

That “wacky proximity alert” sounds like the Mercedes Parktronic system, so it can’t be that wacky...

V12. Diesel.

C-R-A-K  P-I-P-E Crack pipe!

Merciful $DEITY. Aside from the pinned hood - and I’d beef up the pins on general principles just because of how poorly the hood fits; that thing’s going to generate lift like you wouldn’t believe at speed - and the hideous paint and the screwed-up suspension geometry (just LOOK at the negative camber on those back…

Hey, while I’m dreaming...

Perhaps, but the V12 goodness would make up for it.

No, the dream would be a nice E65 AMG 4Matic wagon. This thing is pure CP.