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Big Brother is coming to your car next year
The next big thing: always-on cameras pointed at your face
This is Collector Car TL;DR: a weekly recap of what happened on Collector Car Feed, plus car auctions, listings, automotive news, and other things of interest to the average CCF Enjoyer, and you can get it weekly by giving me your email address.
The Videos
Facebook Marketplace donk situation is crazy
Racebndt content continues in this all-donk episode of The Price is Wrong. Racebndt is always a great guest and we thank him for taking the time. This is a great episode, highly recommend.
Doubled the Discord mods’ salaries: they bought this
We do Readers’ Rides relatively frequently, and even still, we’re two years behind on submissions. But we decided to take a break from viewer cars to check out the fleets of our moderation team, and some of them absolutely dunk on us. The thumbnail car was divisive in that I was the only person with any problem whatsoever with the flares. To be clear, the car is still sick.
Tied up in the trunk of a Datsun 280Z
This video wraps up Mod Rides and starts Alan Weekend, heavily featuring mod and occasional guest Alan. The title is not clickbait. Wild story and worth a watch.
Alan weekend continues Monday with the release of a video he shot the first time we went to SEMA, but we’ll talk about that next newsletter. Hope you like it!The News
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes a mandate for all new passenger vehicles sold in the US to include surveillance tech that monitors driver alertness and sobriety. Weird how these acts never have titles that match the contents, isn’t it?
It was speculated for a long time that this technology would manifest in the form of a breathalyzer interlock in every new car, but instead, shocker, it’s going to be a bunch of cameras pointed at your face, monitoring your pupil dilation and attentiveness. If you don’t appear fit to drive, the vehicle can limit your speed or even prevent you from starting your own car.
It’s unclear if this tech will start rolling out at the end of 2026, start of 2027, or 2-3 years after that. At any rate, this is an egregious surveillance state overstep that we’ll all say we will never comply with, oh I’ll never buy a new car again, all that crap, but then in three years it’ll be normalized and we’ll all just go along with it anyway, like every other example of egregious surveillance state oversteps from the past twenty years. God do we love being watched by little cameras everywhere.Honda flags first annual loss, hit by $15.7 billion EV charge
In seventy years as a company, Honda has never lost money, until today, when the US government ended federal support for EVs. Everybody’s posting big losses on this, Honda is just the latest to do so.Stellantis Just Decided Which Four Brands Actually Matter And Dodge Isn’t One
It was obvious when Stellantis spun off Ram as its own brand, but Dodge is no longer a priority for Stellantis. Ram, Jeep, Fiat, and Peugeot are, just in case you needed a reminder that Chrysler is dead and this is a global company.
Was the 2006 Honda Civic Si the High-Rev Comeback Enthusiasts Had Been Waiting For?
Motortrend reposted their now 20 year old review of the 8th gen Civic Si, which built on the K-series EP3 in important ways, bringing us the most powerful Si ever at the time. The 8th gen included 40 more horsepower in an engine that revved to 8,000 RPMs and a helical LSD as standard, all in a package Honda aimed at delivering for just under $20,000 USD (about $33,000 in today’s money. Miss the gold standard yet?). Were I interested in buying and driving a Civic Si, I would go for this generation over the EP3 or even the beautiful EM1.The Cars
725-Mile 2011 BMW M3 Coupe Competition Package 6-Speed
This is an E92 BMW M3. Not an E30, E36, or even E46. It’s the bastard child V8 M3. And it just sold for over $200K. $205,392, a cute little meme bid. The comments are full of Saudi oil barons defending the purchase and explaining that sometimes you just need to spend TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to experience happiness.
1997 Nissan 200sx SE Coupe 2D
Now we’re talking, right? 55,000 original miles on this 200SX, aka the B14 Sentra. This is not an SE-R, but it is a stick, and the miles are right. So is the paint color. The engine is presumably the wack 1.6 liter instead of an SR20DE, and check out the driver side front fender. $6500 is crazy talk, maybe he’ll come down, but hey, I’d drive it.
2005 Toyota Corolla XRS
21,300 miles on this immaculate 2ZZ-powered six speed manual grocery getter. For the uninformed, this is the best four cylinder engine Toyota made in this era, found only in THIS COROLLA, the Matrix/Vibe, and the 7g Celica GT-S. No MR2 Spyder was ever born with this engine, but many die with it.
This car rules and is worth every penny of $12,069 it’s currently sitting at with a day left on the auction. I’m expecting $16K hammer.
2014 Ford Focus ST
Last seen on Bring a Trailer this past November, the deal fell through and now this 21,000 original mile Ford Octane Academy Focus ST is listed on Cars and Bids with the thrill of no reserve. I’d drive it just like this.
2005 Acura RSX Type-S
49,200 miles on an RSX is unheard of, so expect closer to $20K at the end of this one. two days to go, already at $12,700.The End
Once again, CCF Newsletter subscribers had the chance to win a Scion Sampler CD from 20 years ago. You missed out reading this here. Scroll up and sign up.
Things are happening behind the scenes at CCF right now. I’m working on bringing you a better, and if you’ve been around long enough, familiar experience on the website. Facebook Marketplace is a plague, and we are the cure. Soon, anyway. I don’t want to say too much, you get a dopamine hit from announcing something before you’re done, and that can directly affect whether or not it actually gets done. The last 10% is 90% of the work, something like that. So stay tuned.See you Soon™.
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Double Your Money With This DC2 Acura Integra GS-R
I like the Integra Type R. I like it a lot. Stitch welded chassis, obscene bright paint schemes, and decals that launched a decade of Autozone rice aisle sales. But I will never own one, and neither will you. The ITR market has exploded much like the Mk4 Supra and many other desirable 90s JDMs, and now, for most of us, save the oil barons and crypto bros, they’re out of reach, and they’re never coming back.
But, you can still get the next best thing, if you keep your ear to the rail that is ccf.com/cars, stay vigilant, and react quickly. The GS-R is the more common, less refined little brother to the ITR. No stitch welded chassis, no suede interior, but it still has the B18 and it’s ready to party. It’s also way cheaper than a Type R: while your average ITR on Bring A Trailer will pull over $40,000 and sometimes breach the six figure mark, GS-Rs tend to sell in the teens, even with mileage similar to the gem pictured in this article, which I recently found on Facebook Marketplace with an asking price of $6900.
Bright red, fat fives, 100% stock, no rust, and 156K on the clock. I’ve found two examples on Bring A Trailer with similar mileage, one selling for $13,750 and the other for $15,250, both within the past four months.
So what are you waiting for? If you’re in Ohio, empty your checking account and pick up this quintessential 1990s Honda hot hatch. Bet it on red and double your money.
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Goodbye, Daily Deals
Daily Deals, the near-daily blog post featuring a half broken list of Facebook Marketplace cars you’ve been getting spammed to your inbox for months, is coming to an end.
If you’re a daily reader of Daily Deals, don’t worry too much. I’m making a new page that will update daily with good deals found on ccf.com/cars. I’ll post about it when it’s live.
So why pull Daily Deals? Because it severely clutters the news feed. We have actual content we’ve created going up multiple times per week, and I want the feed to be nice and clean, a showcase for all of our work. Unfortunately, DD gets less views than our features, and really just looks bad in its current state. We’re trying to at least look half professional, here, after all. This is also to improve our mailing list. I only want to deliver you a morning email if there’s actually something on the site to read.
In other site news, Ebay listings are returning, and I’m going to start sunsetting the forum in favor of /cars inside the next month. If you’ve bookmarked any of the forum pages, they’ll start redirecting to /cars but filtered to your chosen make/model/generation. The forum has been a spam magnet from jump and is made obsolete by /cars, so it’s time to stop supporting it.
I know for most of you, this doesn’t really affect you in any way. If you have any concerns about DD or the forum, let me know. /cars is, for the most part, much more user friendly than the forum, but if I’ve missed or broken something, just shoot me an email and let me know.
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Toyota GR86 Warranty Claim DENIED Over Social Media Photos: Engine Blew Up During AUTOCROSS
Today, it’s another round of our Bring A Trailer auction guessing game, which, due to PC concerns, we refer to in print only as Nice Price or No Dice. No cease and desist from Jalopnik yet, so we must still not be big enough. Fingers crossed their legal team attacks us soon.
In this one, we check out a Honda CRX Si, a Mark 2 Toyota Celica Supra, a 1970 Dodge Charger which leads to a great deal of debate, a low mileage, rear wheel drive variant Toyota 4Runner, and a top-trim Honda Element.
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The Bring A Trailer Guessing Game: Nice Price or No Dice #4
Today, it’s another round of our Bring A Trailer auction guessing game, which, due to PC concerns, we refer to in print only as Nice Price or No Dice. No cease and desist from Jalopnik yet, so we must still not be big enough. Fingers crossed their legal team attacks us soon.
In this one, we check out a Honda CRX Si, a Mark 2 Toyota Celica Supra, a 1970 Dodge Charger which leads to a great deal of debate, a low mileage, rear wheel drive variant Toyota 4Runner, and a top-trim Honda Element.
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Real Boomer Content: Mecum Orlando 2022 Coverage
Today, we try to attract some boomers to the site, to help even out the overwhelming weeaboo population, by watching Mecum Orlando 2022. It’s the final hour of the final day: what will roll across the auction block? Probably some cars from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Would you pay HOW MUCH for this S14 240SX? Nice Price or No Dice #3
It’s another Nice Price or No Dice game where you guess if that’s a NICE PRICE on that Bring A Trailer auction or not. This may be a divisive video as Nice Price or No Dice is subjective and determined by the host. WHO WILL WIN?
In this one, we check out an S14 240SX SE, a low mileage 986 Porsche Boxster, a 2G Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX, a 996 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S, a Mk3 Toyota Supra Turbo, and a 4th gen Chevrolet Camaro Z28 SS. Something for most everybody in this one.