While I don’t completely disagree with the points of DIY vs Paying Somebody in terms of savings, I’m also perfectly able to stitch up that gash in my leg myself, so I can skip going to the ER next time . . . Or maybe not.

Tough decision. You can get the standard, unmodified Z3s all day long for about $7000 or less. My daughter has one, the Alpine version no less, and that’s what they paid. I know two others who got similar purchases.

This is a Project with a capital “P” and with a somewhat limited market. For a collector who can either do his own work or has the bucks to pay for a full restoration, it obviously has some appeal.

I could see owning this. Probably a bit overpriced, but then again, how many are there out there in this kind of condition and with all the service records?

To enjoy motorcycling, stay as far away from Harley (and their dealers) as you can get! Lifelong biker here, former test rider for several magazines and you literally could not get me to pay $20 for any Harley . . . well maybe the Cafe Racer model made back in the 70s for one year. Or a Buell, depending on year.

I suspect a meeting where everyone was drunk or high . . .

Having seen a few of these in the wild, they always struck me as car that looked like it had been in some kind of weird accident. Everything is smushed together. Just really odd looking with strange and ungainly proportions.

Soooo . . . the same incompetent people who can’t identify and remove hate speech, calls for murder and insurrection, attempt to set prices on used cars?

Jalopnik Math 101:

An AI-controlled assembly line. One human to stand around and turn it on or off . . .

Can’t envision a situation where I’d want to spend the time and money to do any of that for something like this . . . Lots of more interesting projects out there.

Seek professional help . . .

$5000 for a generic “car” that nobody has ever heard of in the USA and has the same underwhelming power as a 70s Pinto.

Concur. Our two local Beemer dealerships won’t have anything on their lots that doesn’t have the mucho-inflated “BMW Certified” sticker on them . . . and that means if it’s more than 4 years old, go someplace else. They also low-ball you on trade-ins because of this.

$14,000 for a 20-year-old car with rust and other issues, not all of which have likely been disclosed, is most definitely a “premium price.” I can find plenty of other motor-toyz to buy at $14K.

As a BMW owner, NO DICE at that price until (and maybe not after) you get the ABS fixed. We’ve been down that particular road a couple times . . .

JEEBUS NO! If you set out to create the world’s worst car—excluding Yugo—this would be what you’d end up with.

Yes, Certified, but that doesn’t justify that big of a price difference.

Not sure I agree that Carmax or Carvana charge more. We’ve been looking at used 2018 BMW 330xi and Carmax/Carvana have them priced significantly lower than the two BMW dealers we typically buy from. Like a $5000 to $8000 difference on largely identical cars, compared to the local dealers.

Interesting, but not $12,000 worth of interesting. Maybe at half the price, but still kind of a Big Maybe (also known as Nope).