Yes, I think it is a premium product that’s not particularly luxurious. However, it is a luxury purchase in that you’re paying a premium for style, and other aesthetics, and not necessarily more utility or practicality. A luxury purchase, to me, is one where you’re making a choice to spend more, so people know you’ve…

Adding to that.

This still represents the needs and abilities of a relatively small portion of buyers. This is a niche product in a still emerging sector. It is also a luxury purchase, as it doesn’t offer capabilities that a mid-sized ICE-powered SUV available from just about every other manufacturer can’t offer.

At…

The visual display is the limiting factor for me.

Could a windshield-wide HUD replace the dinky screens with a more immersive experience. 

I’m not a Tesla superfan, but I do admire what they’ve accomplished. I don’t own a Tesla, though I’d like to. As a primary vehicle for my family, and our needs, an EV isn’t quite there yet.

We’ve had HEV and PHEV, both are good solutions for us. We’re never bound to a charge-centric route, and our fill-up downtime is…

I get what you’re saying.

I think cars have been commoditized for more than a century, though your local dealer would like to make you think otherwise. Even when it was common and standard to customize the individual factory and dealer options of a car, they were at their core, commodities.

The assembly line changed…

Yes, speed limits should be dynamic where they are safe and prudent for the conditions, and perhaps even for the skill and experience of the driver. 

I get what you’re saying. Driving as we know it may be a thing of the past someday. I think that’s not a stretch. 

Motor vehicles will evolve for the better. They’ll become safer. They’ll become more efficient. They’ll become more automated.

The downsides are also predictable. They’ll be less personal. They’ll be less…

In the IoT world in which we’ve lived for a generation, how on Earth did they not plan for secure OS access?

My father, who was older when I was born, was a tradesman who worked with his hands and creativity on daily basis since he was 12 years old. There was already an entrepreneurial, DIY vibe in our home. It was no wonder that I picked up the car bug, in part inspired by my earliest childhood memories, but also by a…

This is ND.

Hard pass on someone else’s project. I feel project cars should change hands at the value of the powertrain as it sits, at a maximum. What’s that value here? That’s my upper limit. I’d cut that in half and that’s my take it or leave it price. 

I have a suggestion. Rank this wherever you’d like based on whatever criteria you would like, but I’d be quite surprised if this doesn’t earn the top spot. I think that in any objective or subjective measure of “worst”, the Mercury Villager Nautica should win.

As a young adult, this made no sense to me.
It leads me to…

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Innovation is hard work. 

I would hate to see all the shorts actually lose their shorts.

So I voted NP mostly because $10k just doesn’t feel like a lot of money anymore. In the mid 90s, when I started driving, 

While I’m good with the ask on this particular car, there are cheap ones out there. I see tons of cheap ones that have been rode hard and hung up wet. I don’t follow them enough to find the clean ones that need minor work, but surely, as you found, do exist.

For the untrained, they’re a bit scary.

When I was younger…

Congrats on the new ride, and if yours is anywhere near this one in condition, you got the deal of a century my friend. Either way, enjoy it bud. 

I’m going to mark this as an NP, assuming this has comps to support the price, or there’s enough wiggle to get it into market fairness territory.

Clean and mostly original goes a long way for a car that’s got a bit of time on the clock. This likely isn’t the world’s best example of a 940, but it is clean enough for…

Okay, Tesla shorts. Have at it ladies and gentlemen!

I’m in my theater room, with this feed on refresh. This is always fun. Actually, hold up just a few minutes. My kitchen staff says the popcorn is nearly ready and they’ll bring it to me shortly.

So, wait 5 minutes or so, if you don’t mind. I don’t want to miss a bit…

Go for it. If it speaks to you, that’s all that matters.