So PR & good image are the responsibility of the tenants, the customers.  Got it.

That seems to be the wisdom of NYC driving. A friend of mine lives in Manhattan. His girlfriend has some kind of shitbox, which they both claim is ideal for what happens on the roads there. I don’t find it difficult to believe.  And now I know what those rubber mats on the bumpers are for!

After reading some responses, I see that this is a former rental vehicle.  This makes it even more difficult to justify a NP vote.

I won’t say that today’s candidate isn’t worth buying, but I will say that the asking price seems a bit high for this, especially with such high KMs. This can almost be a DD but it would make more sense if the owner were a swinger.

Believe me: I’m far from being Sean-o’s biggest fan. But unless he’s gone on some big War on Vaping & he’s “doing it live” with his pants down, pointing out his vaping between breaks seems petty.

A question but rhetorical: how cool is it to still be able to drive a Bimmer with a stick?

I’m all for it, but with an engine swap. My recommendation is the Cadillac V4-6-8. Maybe only 1/2 of it would explode. The Oldsmobile sourced Diesel would also be appropriate for this purpose.

CP with David Tracy’s money (this deal is not quite his bag), cautious NP in general.

No shit giant CP! Craig’s List ought to do something about keyword diarrhea like they attempt to do with the ladies who are supposedly soooooo existentially lonely and need meaningless sex.

Maybe I’m old, or born in a particular era.  In the 1980s, 1950s cars were cool and so different.  In the 2010s, 1990s cars generally don’t seem that big of a deal.  A ‘57 Bel Air was the shit when The Breakfast Club came out.  I don’t see much lust for a Lumina these days.

If the tires are original, then their flat spottedness is irrelevant.  They will rip apart over the 1st pothole.

If not accidents then insufficient, misguided, or otherwise inadequate maintenance

I don’t know where to go with this. The 2021 dollar equivalent for this would be around 27000 bucks, I would say, more than twice the asking price. But just because it’s barely used, it doesn’t mean that it’s a new car. So many rubbery bits (& other things) have a shelf life & need to be replaced. I would not drive it…

Preaching to the converted here. Planned obsolescence isn’t enough of a source of income for bean counters & stock holders anymore.

God forbid the US using the same easy, logically constructed system of measurement consistently based on the number 10 that vast majority of the world & most industries use.

So she probably had access to a Kadett, Golf. . . & she wound up with a Vega? Again, I stand by the fact that the Vega was good. . . on paper. I will concede that, if she had to choose an American Opel, then a Nova (or BOP X body) would probably be a sounder choice.

With a BC it would have to be a stick.  They’re notoriously “busy”.  A slushbox would bore them to the point of chewing up the seats.

I feel that the Vega is underrated and to some degree unfairly maligned. Sure, it isn’t a Civic, but it is good on paper. It handles well enough. Unfortunately, GM bean counters cut too many corners (which is kind of the point of a subcompact economy car, tho the Japanese manufacturers seem to have known better when…

I agree with the straight (6) shooters here. This won’t win many drag races, but will haul heavy objects reliably.  Straight 6 has excellent low end torque.

Too much for too little about sums it up. It’s 25 years old.