Ha—can’t believe I’m seeing this here. This was my escape drive when I lived in Greenville, although I would stop in Brevard and cut back to Rosman and over 178. That was a half-day drive for me (plus stopping to take pictures). What you have posted, sir, is most definitely a full day drive.

I’m loyal to cars that have a proven dependable history, and cars that I know well enough that I would trust myself in an inspection situation. That’s to say, BMWs from 1980 through 2004. Does it count as brand loyalty if it’s to a range of cars no longer in production?

Oh. Sorry about that. It seems like everyone’s angry at VW right now, and I just feel bad for the mid-level employees who have to deal with this.

Um. This is not referring at all to the cause of (and much-debated blame for) the issues currently plaguing the unenviable employees at Volkswagen. This is referring only to the fact that—as you’ve implied—to improve emissions on any vehicle, even one functioning perfectly and meeting all required standards of…

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It probably has a CD player. It probably has power seats. It probably has leather upholstery. It probably has a better emissions profile than a TDI SportWagen.

“Surprisingly real” it may be, but the owner does not in any way sound like a guy I would want to do business with, mainly from the repeated use of “straight shooter” and the fact that he had to “force” his mechanic to charge him for more work—that shop probably just wants this forum-addicted moron out of there. His…

I’d call that an improvement over stock.

I ran a RWD E39 with snows for a season. It was great fun—as a third daily, with a Subaru Legacy running snows as the primary winter driver. Going sideways is fun, and the balance of the car makes it very easy to control—but you will be sideways the whole time.

Where do you live?

That car is a diesel, not a gas model, and has 268,000 miles.

Whoa, this was ages ago. But I believe what was happening here was that you were giving examples of why this car was priced high, but weren’t posting equivalent deals. The links appear to be an assortment of random Mercedes-Benzes, none of which are W124s (which would be priced higher than those vehicles in comparable…

It’s been a few weeks since I made a bad automotive purchase decision. Tell me more about this.

It doesn’t matter whether you appreciate them or not. Take the E30 M3—no way in hell is that a $60k car, realistically. But there’s a following, and a demand. One person’s opinion doesn’t sustain or break the W124 market.

Exactly.

The cars you posted aren’t even W124s. This is a European-imported, manual, diesel W124 wagon that was never sold as such on this continent and imported. $8,500 is a more than fair price.

Yes. That would be what I said. I’m sure as hell not throwing away money for it though.

I suspect it’s more of an internal, non-visual thing. These cars just sit, and sometimes a visual inspection won’t show the damage of dry-rotted rubber.

Thank god for everyone who throw away money hand over fist buying new cars and taking the brunt of the depreciation yourself. Enthusiasts wouldn’t have many exciting options if there was no one to make the bizarre financial decision to buy new cars.

At the current four figure bid price, it’s the cheapest vintage Porsche you can get today in any sort of rolling state...