These probably won’t depreciate much more because of the rarity and place in Mercedes history. It’s the first BS in the US, and argueably the most bestist by my arbitrary rating system. They have held their value around the $50-$70k range for the last 3 years that I have been considering buying one, with essentially…

1. $50,000 isn’t multi-millionaire money.

Yes, but it does have a gearbox that comes in all caps. SPEEDSHIFT, man. SPEEDSHIFT!

Why buy this brand new 500+hp Camaro for $56 grand when you can save 5 grand and still be a pretentious dick in this AMG black?

I’m thankful I can close my laptop when it says something bad and yell “Shut up” at it and that fixes everything.

I’m thankful for my manifold not in danger and my floor board not falling off.

This is honestly the only race that matters for me during the entire year. Well this and the 24-hours of Le Mans really... Both are brutal on both car and driver.

Your budget is too conservative for a proper mid-life crisis, and nothing on that list would cause the requisite marital strife. That said, there’s still a way to get what you want while still going full-on Derpasaurus:

The answer is

Fast, rugged, out door activities and mid life crisis?! If only there was a corvette powered convertible with a bed on a raised SUV frame ...

Wow, wasn’t ready for that shock

Since the current generation switched to a FWD based unibody platform.

I have a feeling Jeremy loves to troll! 99% chance this was him trolling the ToysRus! #Legend

You have to talk to other people to be dishonest

Mountain cops don’t mess around. I’ll bet Avon is getting a couple new police edition Explorers.

Not cool.

I want to make a crack about throwing in the towel on this one. But I gave it a NP vote. And judging by the 50/50 split, the seller has the price dead on.

Crack pipe. Even though it will sell for that in the market today its still a ~180bhp early SC. The best thing it’s got going for it are the 78-79 big port heads that it comes with. If you were to drop 20k on an engine rebuild you could squeeze out an extra 5-10hp from those heads. I just rebuilt the 83 small port…

Counter-counterpoint: People who spend 99% of their time in traffic or on a highway are dumb. There are so many good driving roads out there, and they are even better with a manual.

Cadillac Concepts are the vaporware of car companies. Or in pre-Milennial speak, it’s the Lucy holding a football of car companies.