Don’t get me wrong- I think this car is absolutely worth the upkeep. That wonderful AMG motor will put a smile on your face every single time you fire it up. I worry that the next owner could be someone who can’t manage the nagging repairs you have to expect with a car like this. I suspect the seller is in that exact…

Someone with $5,700 to their name should not even think about owning a 350+ HP Mercedes convertible.  This is fck-it-why-not money. 

So, will you take $5000 for it? 

An 18 year old AMG car is CP if they paid to take it off your hands. This thing is guaranteed to need at least $5,700 in maintenance. Even if the owner just spent $5,700 yesterday. You could ignore it and maybe get a summer of fun out of it before flipping it to the next sucker. Or on the drive home the engine might…

I don’t see a happy future for this car. Someone will buy it with every penny they have to their name, and in 6 months it’ll be non-op and back on Craigslist.

Clearwater? Bet you had a harder time dodging scientologists than actual people

Yeah, this is true.

I may once have made the foolish statement on this website that I would never give a Mercedes an NP. Today was the day that I had to give up on my convictions and become a lying liar.

I’m not going to deny it’s a stylish car (through the lens of nostalgia) but let’s look at the facts; this car was something like 215 inches long, weighed about 4000 lbs and got roughly 14 miles to the gallon. Compare that to a CRV which is almost three feet shorter (!), weighs 500 pounds less, and gets more than…

Now you’ve got Kokomo stuck in my head, you UNBELIEVABLE monster!

Can we go back to this? I hate SUVs.

Nope. The 911 has the engine in the wrong place. It is the ultimate expression of German bloody-mindedness in pursuing a lousy basic design forever, and I have no use for going any faster than a base Cayman will go anyway. The Cayman is simply the better car to drive, and in a sports car that is really the only thing…

So what’s this guy?  He just looks like a lazy slob to me...

I imagine it was an intentional snub. Making the point that they had seized the means of production from the filthy capitalists.

The 2002 without the kidneys reminds me of a Mini Clubman, which in turn reminds me of a Mini Clubman I used to see in the ‘90s which had BMW kidneys attached to the grill. When it was announced BMW were buying Rover, I wondered if the owner was some kind of prophet.

I liked the nostril/kidney grille when it was more restrained, like this:

Back in the day the two tone swoop down to a point in the middle was a popular way to jazz up the fronts of all sorts of vehicles...

I love how the soviets did not care at all when designing a badge for EMW

Although totally unintentional, I always like to believe that the hoodlines and the two tone on the Isetta make the resemblance of massive kidneys.