If it were a bit cheaper, an excellent candidate for a restomod.

I see the Benz character lines/”wind sculpting”, but it’s more coincidental than copying/homage. Definitely see the Porsche haunches someone else suggested though. Thankful the current Benz grille/headlight treatment (and hideous lower gritted teeth trope) is absent though.

Yeah; the purpose of this thought exercise is - what happens if we remove the “kind of”

Hypothetical, humor me:

Ahh yes, the Krautback. These were going for about the same amount of money when I was looking for my first stateside car back in 2011. Have they gotten more reliable in the intervening years?

100% agree.

I say let the manufacturers try it out - kinda like the way an Apple store works. Maybe you get better service, maybe you get more knowledgeable salespeople - but you also get no discounts, less flexibility, things done “by-the-book”. Alternatively you can buy your iPhone case from Best Buy or Amazon or something and…

here’s why you’re pouring out 24 beers https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2009/oct/06/australian-fans-24-cans-beer

Embrace your inner bogan and pour out a slab in memoriam.

So GM’s all but given up on the entirety of the RHD market now, unless I’m missing something? I mean, I guess the former HSV engineers will now spend their days RHD converting Corvettes and the like but - well, what’s left?

And drive that across the continent?

Key numbers:
9 years old
115,000 miles
$19,000

My gut instinct is if you got either of the first two lower, the third could be higher - but as is/where is, it should be lower. CP

Part of what’s fascinating about these vehicles is that they’re from an age where manufacturers saw markets that weren’t being served, and then made products to fill those niches.

I mean, I can think of worse ways to die than crashing in this thing. NP

Lol I just bought a Benz with both a trackpad and a “Send address to Nav” feature on the phone app. Guess which one gets used, and which one I tried once and was like “Eat up Martha?”

This bloke’s Jaguar XK8 videos have been a godsend to me:

Definitely not the fastest or sleekest way to win at Radwood but it’d be difficult to turn as many heads as this for under $5k

Neutral: It’s simple to say but bloody hard to do-

I mean, I read this and instinctively wanted to smack the smugness out of that shitty post, but... it’s not wrong.

Thanks for flagging that it’s on FB; last time I clicked on a Facebook Marketplace link the shitty site put it in the top-right corner saying “YOU CAN STILL BUY THIS!”