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Here’s a thought: manuals have been less frequently bought because they have been less available. They aren’t available because dealers aren’t ordering them. When the car market was scarce (2021), dealers were less inclined to ask for anything that wasn’t in line with the majority customer. On top of that, many

I wonder how much of this is just down to manuals having bottomed out in popularity, and now relatively marginal changes are going to big produce swings just because the numbers are that low. Like, a new Mustang this year is probably going to single-handedly give it a decent spike.

I’m doing my part - I bought two new manual cars in that time period.

This isn’t a bad suggestion, but Regular Car Reviews made a point recently that LS swapping just about any sports car is redundant at this point because C5 Vettes are so cheap and plentiful.

yeah theres lots of ways to get better than v8 power to weight ratio without actually being a v8. But i see the appeal

I want at least a V8

Since you didn’t mention reliability, what about a first-gen Audi S5 with a nice big V8 (the same 4.2 FSI from the RS4 before they switched to a boring supercharged V6 in 2013). There are quite a few examples in your price range with under 100k miles. They are a bit heavy but they make a nice noise, are super composed 

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KBB is NOT a good measure of a car like this. Now I agree it’s probably overpriced unless it went on BAT and got into a bidding war. But since KBB is based on auction and sales values, when there’s something that’s so low miles that there’s no reference point, particularly something that’s collectible/desirable at

This is deservedly getting shellacked in the voting. Nobody mentioned the knockoff wheels? weaksauce.

I’m not against short shifters or upgrading shift feel. But this:

I have the acuity short throw shifter in my 9th gen Si and it feels amazing. I’m willing to guess that the shifter in this car is a hybrid racing short throw and you have to feel it to realize how awesome they are. So don’t start ragging on the shifter until you experience it.

Yeah, beat me to it, I was expecting a low mile, stock car.  While this thing might not be Fubar, none of the stuff added makes me want to pay more for it.  I was maybe in with the first exterior pic, and definitely out with the first one of the interior.

Sums it up nicely.  I tried to buy one of these in 2000, fresh out of grad school.  Nobody in the Honda dealer would talk to me.  Bought a Celica GT-S instead, was very happy.  So while I never got to drive one of these, they still look fantastic all these years later.

“if you put a new steering wheel on a car that had an airbag there, I’m going to assume you were in an accident”.

From that price tag, I though you were going to show us a 50k original mile Prelude and then we’re argue whether the lowering and the exhaust or whatever would be annoying to change.

Gonna take time. The third trilogy wrote/focus grouped the film portion of the property into a hole.

Harmy’s Despcialized ... they’re pretty easy to find if you don’t mind going the jolly roger route. It’s the only version I’ve shown my kid, but I’ve also told him he’s in for a surprise if he ever watches them at a friends house, lol.

Didn’t some internet wizard person put out some “despecialized editions” a few years ago, where he stripped out all the trashy extra bits and ‘fixed’the special effects?

The original trilogy are the only movies I still own on VHS, precisely for this very reason. I do own the DVDs, I got them at a very cheap rate, but Han shot first.