I’m gonna be straight up: This thing, to me, looks good. Not “good for a Pinto,” just good. I love the shooting brake style, I think the lines of this model work quite well as a wagon, and the woodie panels are icing on the cake. Interior looks nicely sorted, too.

Came here to say EXACTLY this.

If I really needed a car and had a $15k budget? It’d likely be something boring that has both the potential to keep running for another 10 years or so, and not the risk of having been beat to shit/vaped in/absurdly modified like an Si at this price point carries.

Obligatory “in this market,” but this is still a decade-old Civic, with perhaps the least-desirable Si trim of any such model, and it’s the ugliest generation of Civic to boot.

If it makes you feel any better, I saw a first-gen Integra at the grocery store the day before yesterday.

Hey now, my dad is still a Chrysler devotee. Homeboy still proudly rolls around in his ‘06 PT Cruiser convertible, which he earnestly claims is “going to be a classic.”

That 3/4 view in the second photo looks uncomfortably like a Camaro of recent/present vintage.

*Assuming the transmission is actually functional...*

AC/DC had a song about that road.

The Electric Mayhem in a Toyota, hands down. After that, the gulf is wider than Miss Piggy after Thanksgiving dinner.

Quite a few terrific stories told about the Columbia Bar at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in downtown Astoria, which traces the area’s maritime history up to the present, including heavy featuring of the Coast Guard’s west coast fleet, which is headquartered just down the coast a piece in Newport, OR.
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Under $20k but has to be a prestige marque, woe-is-me-my-finances-are-such-a-problem, and oh by the way, my au pair will need to fit in my budget luxury SUV.

Look, OG Bugs are fun and neat and cute and good. They can be tons of fun to own and drive. I had one myself for a time.

Season 3, Episode 20 needs to be on here: ‘Good-bye.’

I’d add that C-pillar to the list. To me, it’s just...funny looking.

Do the 71 streets in the greater Atlanta area with the word “Peachtree” in their name qualify as a quirk?

Super clean, neat lines that have apparently aged better in my eyes than in those of this writer, and it’s unique enough that it’ll stand out a little bit, plus the added fun of droptop runabout living. Low miles, solid mechanicals, nothing too fussy to go horribly wrong.

It’s the jaunty summer version of Fozzie’s car. Automatic NP for me; see username.

Beautiful. I love the look of the E30s, and somehow, I think the droptop is the best of the lot.

I don’t hate any of these, and in fact I quite like the first one.