Well, sure. They’re victims of cancel culture, don’cha know.

What usually pushes me over the edge is some poorly-designed impossible-to-access stupid cheap part that renders the car unusable.  Heater cores fall into this category, as do sunroof drains that don’t.   I reach a point where the level of annoyance with the car exceeds whatever joy I get while driving it.

My own gauge as to when it’s time to move on from a car is when I feel...annoyed...by having to pay for basic maintenance. That means I’ve fallen out of love with it. When I first got my Miata, I actually loved taking it in for service, talking with the service writers and mechanics about the car, looking at the…

From the search term spam, to the weird aggressive tone of the sellers comments, if this ad had anymore red flags then it would be a Soviet Military Parade. ND all the way.

This is what I came to say. Find a seller who’s not an idiot.

And today you answered the question of every teen in high school...”when am I going to use this in real life?”

“those living in CA,”

The Altima handled well, but aged badly. But it was way cheaper than an equivalent Camry. And Camrys from the early 2000s were the height of dull.

maybe once you get past 200k.... to your point i think the $2ooo cars of yesteryear are the $3500 cars of today.... whenever i hop on CL, 100k miles usually starts around $6000... 150k usually starts around $3500... and 200k starts around $2500... all give or take. 

Chicago?  My concern is that the visible or disclosed rust is not all the rust by half.  And the ask already seems high for a car on (at least) its second lap of the odometer.  

— should Brooks have been fleeing the police for an unrelated incident — then that would change the complexion of the Waukesha parade crash and its interpretation. That would then make Jalopnik’s initial interpretation of the crash as intentional incorrect,

I actively discourage people from asking me for car recommendations because what people want is for someone to make them feel better about buying an overly-expensive SUV to haul little Jimothy to school. No one wants to hear that they should have just bought a minivan; people want to be assuaged from a perceived…

On most routes it’s entirely possible to get a pre-deregulation flight experience if you’re willing to pay a pre-deregulation fare. But we’re all a bunch of cheap bastards. Airlines are not colluding to keep prices high. They’re racing each other to the bottom, because no matter how much they whine about the service, t…

This finally looks like a seller who isn’t smoking a... uh... no dice. Maybe it sold already as the original Craigslist posting is deleted. But damn leather seats to hell. Over time they make every interior look crappy. Long live the base VW GTI interior!

I’ll go NP on this one.  The GXP is really quick; my in laws have one.   The interior is plasticky, which is what you’d expect of a car that never had enough years to get fully sorted out.  But its otherwise a nice drive.  In a Miata you can throw stuff behind the seats, but in the Solstice that’s a wall, so the car…

In this case, older=better.

A million stars to you. Especially true on the ‘good luck finding an un-modded VW from this era’ comment. These are the Euro fanboy equivalent of pre-2001 Civics. They were an economy car that happened to be fun to drive and had strong aftermarket support. Any survivor now is either a modified example someone…

Being a reformed VW fanboy, it’s funny to see some of the first comments here. Some answers for the culturally uninformed: