There are “real estate agents” here who work like that. Unbeknownst to you, your house here in the US is listed for sale on a website in China. Photos and everything. Once the buyer in China hands over the cash for your house (which wasn’t for sale in the first place) to their office in China, the “agent” in the US…

I’ve had every kind of Mercedes but SECs.

Assume bad timing chain guides, blown transmission, blown hydraulic suspension, and stuff like guide rod bushings in need of replacement. If those things were in good shape, they would’ve been mentioned. It’s telling the seller has only put forty miles on the car (or maybe not even that). 560SECs are the most…

“Stuuuds, stripped nuuuts, two hunnert...”

I have the knowledge and ability to drive a stick, but my left knee is severely arthritic

Did you buy that from an ad in Boys’ Life?

It’s interesting to consider how this idea came about — as historically, Islam has had a big, vocal phobia about (sacred) books being eaten.

A man’s gotta wear what he likes.

I don’t think preppers are into Land Rover. Other than the EMP preppers who love the Series II Land Rovers.

Suggest you contact the guy behind it, Shahir Zag: https://twitter.com/shahirzag?lang=en

Croatia is famous for either, depending on which historian you believe, willingly colluding with Nazis or being forced to collude with Nazis. It’s still a sore point between them and the Serbs, who on the other hand colluded with Soviets.

Uh, more like Croatia.

The 300TE is my favorite car. But $20K to suffer on cloth seats and jerk a knob? You just broke my pony.

The aftermarket suspension eliminates it from any consideration of high value.

Lada?!

Assuming this is taking place in the US, not how a warranty is supposed to work. Push back. They should give you something at least as good as what failed, even if that means giving you something better or reimbursing you for buying someone else’s similar product.

Automotive circuit boards are built a little bit more durably that the ones in your washing machine.

It’s never hard once you know what you’re supposed to do.

Not arguing one way or the other, but there are a lot of 1980s MBs running around in places like Cuba and sub-Saharan Africa.