Yeah you could put another 10 grand in it to get in decent shape and have a collector car easily worth 7-8 grand.

Surprise Twist : This Evoque didn’t come from the factory as a convertible!

There are so very many red flags this looks like a parade in China.

For $12,000 you could do a poor-man’s European delivery for one of these. Just go to Europe, enjoy Germany, Spain, Italy, and/or any myriad of other LHD countries, find your own, ship it back, and get all the paper work done and still likely spend less than $12,000 - depending on how much Bavarian beer you drink.

If you’re looking to buy a race car, bring along someone who knows the rules for building cars that race in your class.

“Given the prices on BaT”. Ok, then sell it on BaT and leave us out of it.

A car so boring I can’t even be bothered to finish this comm...

I feel like this is the kind of thing where you just need to find the one person who wants this car but I’m concerned that person is also the one selling it.

Sorry, too many miles for that kind of money, but the final deal breaker was the tear in the top.  At $52,000 I am expecting that kind of thing to be addressed properly before the sale.

For that money, I’d want to see less mileage and no tears in the top.

I was on the fence until the “1-inch tear in the canvas” part. That shit didn’t creep up when they went to post the listing, it was there and they couldn’t be bothered to fix it. So what else couldn’t they be bothered with?

“Triggered”?

Strong disagree. The only reason one would buy this is to be seen. It’s not fast. It’s not practical. It’s... not particularly good at being at most things people want their cars to do. The only thing this car does well is be seen.

You stay right where you are.  I’m calling the authorities.

Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks. If I had one of these it would look like this, de-badged, de-winged, anonymous color - total sleeper.

The idea that the Rob Emslie, and by extension Jalopnik readers, have to participate in some sort of “sliding scale” when evaluating this insane car market is kind of insulting, and it just feeds into the insanity.  We don’t have to pretend that a deal is a good deal just because some others have lost their damn minds.

Yeah, this ad listing is almost like a parody...

Rare? Yeah. Interesting? Maybe. Offensive? Probably. Buick must have sold these cars to 113 50-somethings in the 80's who thought they had a real executive hot rod. Each one of these 113 cars must be imbued with the still-living poltergeist of shattered dreams and disappointment from middle aged men who were…

This is a $3000 truck in normal times.  It’s not 4x4, it’s not in mint condition, and there isn’t $5000 worth of almonds in the bed.  Since not even one of those is true, this is No Dice for me.

“We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”