*snerk* Take your damn star.

Oh stop it.

“efficient crossovers”

The HRV is based on the Fit. It manages to be slower, more expensive, uglier, thousands more expensive, AND 15-20% worse on gas. What a great deal!

Gas will get expensive again if we ever have politicians that look to make driving a secondary mode of transport, not the norm.  

Most young people don’t have enough money to be profitable.  They can buy a used VW and wonder what it was like when all the buttons and switches worked.

Haven’t you heard?  Young people are too busy with their rock and roll and long hair to buy/drive cars.  

That’s too bad. Having had lots of VWs in our family from the 1960s to around 2007, we all really like the marque. (1958, 1966, 1972 beetles, 1964 Double cab, 1964 21 window deluxe bus, 1977 rabbit bought new, 1986 Golf bought new, 1996 GTI VR6 bought new, 2000 GTI VR6 bought new)

But the reliability nightmare of…

“Or at least until gas prices soar and Americans want good, small, fuel-efficient cars again.”

That’s the classic Travelers scam.

Without comment on whether the seller of this car is a scammer or just a Craigslist novice trying to protect himself against scammers: The deal you described is a stone classic in several ways.  Here are some links for one’s own self-defense... and for the benefit of any older folks you may be looking after (that…

Unfortunately that seems to be a pretty popular scam.  Around here they do that with roofing projects.  

Yep. If you can’t even bother to list the mileage or any other details, I’m not even giving them a ring. 

A VW Jetta is a fair bit bigger than any flavor of Metro.

He’s attempting to sell two cars off the same ad. This means he’s too cheap to pay for a second ad. What does CL charge for an ad, $10 or $15?

I cannot fault you on that AT ALL. 

I think it

ND. If the advertiser doesn’t know what he is selling, how can I know what I am buying.

From the Ad:

This is about 30 minutes from me.  I’ll check it out for you for a fee. 

I was a weird kid who loved Caddys, Lincolns, and Oldsmobiles even more than muscle cars and (God help me)...

This is one of those weird ND deals that I’d honestly consider in spite of myself.

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