OK, so the guy has a compulsive hoarding problem and he’s also a dick. 

In America, you put In God We Trust on your money, in Soviet Russia, we have no money. 

Considering that the Mirage is actually exceeding Mitsubishi’s own expectations, there probably is still a market for that. Cheapskates, people who don’t want to finance, people with a phobia of used cars, plus small businesses and other fleets that need cheap runarounds for their employees. Also commuters that just…

And Maxus is another cast-off former British brand SAIC absorbed into their stable, originating with the LDV Maxus van, by way of American VC, then Russian ownership.

“Runnable” - engine isn’t seized, so you could make it run with many hours of work, some new parts, and a temporary gas tank rigged up.

Hell, if he really cared about saving them, he could have started marking them down to the $300 scrap value and selling to to people other than the scrap metal dealer, since that's all he ended up getting for many of them anyway.

And be gentle with it, in my experience, their crystals crack and shatter at the drop of a hat.

Although, for a new car at $9k out the door on the base model, I think buyers will forgive slightly dated sheet metal.

I actually like that better, tbh. Maybe paint a cheat stripe to connect all the windows in a single band.

I always wondered if it was a case of RV fashion lagging behind the rest of the world by a decade or two. RV interiors clung to 1970s crushed velour, shag carpet, and dark fake wood paneling well into the 1980s, and a lot of their 90s stuff was 80s pastels and pickled oak inside. Now, their interiors resemble '00s…

Its a real life Beemobile!

Nothing to say the big companies might not sell of blocks of their chargers to local franchisees in exchange for royalty fees, once the network is built out and the business has matured. 

Hey, Tesla cancelled the ads calling the Model 3 "practically uncrashable" , what more do they want?

Thats what I don't get, the market for neoclassics should be dead or dying, yet prices for them are still sky high and they're still popular enough to allow several specialty used car dealers to focus entirely on them. So, some portion of the younger generations seems to have acquired a taste for them.

Your dad would have been the target market for this car, WWII/Korea generation who were in their 50s and 60s when it was new. Mainly, people who had some first hand memories of the prewar classics it was emulating.

Clenets were always among the best quality/best built of the many neoclassic makes that were around in the ‘70s and ‘80s, so if you absolutely have to have a car like this, this would be one of the better ones to consider.

Unfortunately, that truck is basically a museum piece. I’d feel bad using it as an actual truck, after someone cared for it so lovingly over the past 35 years. 

The interior does look pretty nice. Just strange that they’re choosing the Renegade as the basis for all this expensive custom work, instead of the Grand Cherokee or Wrangler.

They were stable enough in the 1980s, after their 1984 IPO, for Ford to be interested in them. And they were moving over 50,000 units a year in the US for a little while in the early '00s, when they had their retro models out. Market share reached a whopping .4% early in this century, about double what it is now.

Will they bring back their beautiful soft leather and wood paneled interiors straight out of a 1930s ocean liner? Because the XE is kind of a disappointment there, and that used to be a major point of differentiation with other luxury brands.