I’d certainly take that offer if I was the seller.

Well, it’s your money/time/effort. Go for it.

I can think of a lot easier ways to make $500. Even after spending many, many hours cleaning that thing up, you’re still stuck with a non-running car with no title that you somehow have to offload. It’ll probably look like that again before you find a sucker dumb enough to drop a grand on your now-polished turd.

Anything more than scrap value is too much for this car. I’d go $200 at best. It’ll make a fine LeMons or Chump racer, but it will take a lot to even get it there.

Oh sure it is. You just have to know where to look:

Pfft. Reading is for suckers. Here at The Internet we specialize in making snap judgments based on the minimum information possible.

It should be noted that the price of the Cruze includes incentives that you may or may not qualify for, particularly the Lease Loyalty or Conquest. So for a lot of people, that price is about 20% higher. Still not a bad deal, but buyer beware.

A potentially easier option that is less likely to result in fisticuffs with a wifebeater-wearing Teddy Brosevelt would be to block the truck in with the car and use an extension cord to reach the charging station.

Thanks for making us all look at it twice.

I never understood why people get so hung up about security in a convertible. If someone wants into your car... any car... they’ll just pick up a rock and break a window.

Nailed it.

Better yet... which car most closely resembles Harpo Marx?

Also notable that that car probably wouldn’t exist if not for Karl Marx.

I can see the similarity, too, but don’t you think it’s more likely Suzuki is paying tribute to one of their own past products rather than Toyota’s?

a one-opening grille with a honeycomb pattern that feels a lot like an old Toyota Land Cruiser grille

I don’t spel so gud.

Canadian + Scandanavian = Cadanavian.

The Tamiya labels are user-applied as well, but still appear as “Champior” spark plugs and “Mopil” oil. Or some such things.

Some of that has to do with trademark and copyright licensing. Tamiya did the same thing for the reissues of their old 1980s RC cars. The originals had decals with racing sponsors like Champion and Pennzoil, but the reissues have some of them replaced with “similar” looking names and logos instead. Not because of…

That livery is where the flavor is.