Right?

I truly liked it.

I know. No mention of that either on CL or the dealer’s website. Crooks.

I think the idea is that it’s only $1,500 down and then only $1,500 a month, every month, until you die.

And they don’t even mention an actual sale price!

I can never upload a picture to Jalopnik. Try right clicking on the original image, then copying the original link to the image, then paste the link instead. Works well for me.

Could I offer you instead this near-contemporary 1974 Volvo 142 two door Coupe at about a fifth of the price? New cam, new headers, new exhaust? Weirdly, I think I could love this car.

Pretty fascinated by this 1966 Porsche 356 Speedster with only 1,967 miles at the low-low price of only $41,790. Must be a Black Friday sale because that’s, what, $100,000 off for this miracle? And don’t worry, you know they’ll finance you because:

If there isn’t a unifying theme this year across all of the Lifetime movies like Winter Storm Megan my holiday season will be ruined.

The more I read about charging rates, even with an ideal infrastructure, the more interested I am in hydrogen.

SUPER big contact patches. And MBs manual transmissions back then were only ok, auto’s pretty good. Don’t know about today

If this was Twitter, I’d be following you by now.

Yup. Damned shame.

I would think the chassis would have been great, the engine pretty good, not sure the transmission would have been super for autocross.

*I* have an idea about badge engineering French cars for the US market:

I have owned a Triumph TR-8, an MG Midget, a 911 Carrera, a 944S2, and a VW Golf R. I truly enjoyed the Crossfire, it rotated exactly around my hips and the uncharged V-6 just loved to rev. Fine seats, good brakes, huge contact patches. The Commonwealth of Virginia and I had a few discussions about all of that, which…

I understood at the time that MB hated both of them because they perceived the two as diluting the brand. The Crossfire especially was a pretty close competitor to the SLK - even most of the interior was identical, though much better styled - but something like $10K cheaper. I’m glad the Pacifica survived, my sister…

In this case, the answer is GTI.

I was unaware that I put thousands of Americans out of work because I bought a car that had already been built by two companies that had already merged, but I sure do feel badly about that now.

I dailied a Chrysler Crossfire for 11 years and I’m the only person on this side of the Atlantic who appreciated the “Merger of equals.” It was an MB SLK320 in a stiffer and much more intriguing Chrysler body, and even though neither Chrysler or Mercedes dealers wanted anything to do with it, I loved it.