Yeah, I think at a certain point, everything has to stop depreciating! I mean, even you wanted a Cavalier, you’re still going to have to pony up at least a thousand!

I still think someone in accounting didn’t get the memo about it coming over here. They’re going to find out and we’re going to be sad.

I just looked up 5-series bimmers which are closer in class to the S60/V70s. They’re also in the same 5-10k price range.

Compared to what? On a whim, I just went looking at 12 year old Lexuses (Lexi?) on CL and they’re all hovering in the 5-10 range. I’m taking a stab that a Lexus represents good resale, since any other luxury marque (German) has pretty bad resale.

If nothing else, since as you said, these bodies are nearly impossible to find, especially in good, non-rusting condition, and with Subaru’s chassis sharing history, I’m guessing this would be a super easy transplant for one of those fancy turbo motors that are all the rage with the subie-kids have these days.

Is it possible that the person who bought the car is some sort of master MB mechanic, fixed the most obvious issues and flipped it? Just throwing some hope out there for the human race (I once bought a Volvo 240 for $600 with transmission issues that turned out to just be sheared engine mounts. $40 and a cherry 240…

Not sure if folks here appreciate just how rare that color is.

That’s a 850 T-5R, which (at least in the states) was the only model iteration that was available in the Cream Yellow color and only in 1995. It was only FWD. The 850R did not receive AWD until the name changed to the V70R (S70R) which wasn’t until 1997 or so.

A good portion of the later models got it. All of the last run of the S/V90s. And a bunch of the previous gen 940s and 960s. They did it more for comfort then performance (most were combined with Nivomat). The diehard Volvo guys prefer the solid rear - sort of like Mustang folk I guess.

I call it FWD since they start with a chassis designed for FWD and bolt on a bunch of driveshafts to occasionally send power to the rear. No offense - the only cars I call AWD are from Audi and Subaru. Everything else is just posing lol!

Comparing apples to oranges. One has a sideways engine hanging over the front wheels. The other has 50/50 weight distribution going straight to the rear axle (might even be an IRS - not paying close enough attention to what the base wagon was).

Mind if I ask a serious question about the bagged-lifestyle? I work in the motorsports industry, and have yet to get an answer to this from anyone I know:

Because rich people hate us. They know they need us common folk, but they secretly despise our poor asses for taking up precious resources that are rightfully theirs.

Yes they were - Look up the Mazda 323 GTX.

This gets a little bit of a premium because they never offered the Touring with the 3.0 in the US. We only ever got the 323 or 325. Manual tourings are also a little rare since they are in only about 1 out of 4 of the tourings sold here.

Was confused initially by this post, since that storm was Wednesday night (2 nights ago). The “blizzard” is starting now. Did you mean to post this yesterday?

My takeaway from this: State Farm had no qualms about insuring a car with a “odd” VIN, and taking the money to pay for said insurance. But as soon as it came time for them to pay out money, their immediate response is to rat the guy out to the Feds - Haha! we can’t pay to fix a car that you don’t have anymore. Sucker!

Anyone catch Mueller’s foot-in-the-mouth interview with NPR? Seems to me that they are still having issues answering these complex American questions, including how to submit proposals to CARB!

I read their response more along the lines of they requested a proposal, and the proposal failed to address a number of the important points that were requested.

In other words, Teslas have about the same reliability as any other high priced luxury sedan?