I had an Aztek as a rental a couple of times. It was a competent enough car. The thing about it that really, really pissed me off was the back window: it had a bar across it, where it went from slanted to vertical, exactly in the wrong place to see the headlights of the ar behind you, and so making it much harder to…

If you’re driving your Aston-Martin to the valet, you don’t put crappy-looking orange wheels on it or an Aston-Martin logo and name on the dash right where you look at it. The car may not have been actually hooned, but there are better examples out there that don’t scream “hoon!” at me.

There’s a difference between driving it and hooning the living crap out of it. This one speaks of being well over that line.

Sorry, but those wheels speak to me of an owner who bought the car to be flashy - and that includes flashy hooning. 55 large? Not only no, but hell no. CP.

Maybe the market for these is truly that crazy. Me, I’ll climb in my $5000 560SL and enjoy the drive.

And when you’re done, you still have a 1986 Ford Fairmont wagon with a Mustang nose. Whoopee ding. This price is about three times too high. CP.

For this car, that’s fuck it money. Drop the top and enjoy summer. NP.

If you’re up for hugs, have one from me.

Yeah, the dealer’s sketchy, but a good thorough PPI from an independent mechanic who knows Audis counteracts that. I’ll but a car that passes its PPI from anyone as long as it has a clear title.

Neutral: Pay me for the $3400 I sunk into two rebuilds of the manual transmission in my 1992 Explorer, the first at a Ford dealer at 65K miles, the second coming 4000 miles after the first - and for which Ford refused to honor the repair warranty.

Sure there is. I’m fine with fixing mechanicals, but hidden rust would be a buzzkill for me. For other folks, it might be the other way around. And either way, it’s good to know just what the hell you’re getting yourself into.

Hell, I’d buy it just so I could learn something from doing the IMS repair if and when it blows. There’s $5K worth of education there easily, and a fun car in the meantime. It still needs a PPI for anything *else* that might be lurking in there, but overall, NP.

$5500 for a 90-mile electric car from what’s essentially a Chinese maker that went under long ago? How many of the parts *aren’t* unobtainium? And even if it’s all working right, what you have is an econobox. Whatever happened to Meh Car Monday? This belongs there. CP all week long.

Not just rust, but respray with rust. What are they hiding? CP.

In fairness, I haven’t seen Erica bag on, really, anything...

Disc or drum? Disc brakes are really straightforward. Drum brake repairs are made of cussing.

Looks like it’d be a really fun car. $6K fun? Naw, more like $4K, maybe. CP.

Yeah, the SLK is a very...compressed car.

Yup.

My 560SL and I quite agree. I was just pointing out that there are plenty of folks for whom a car is transportation, nothing more.