…biggest news in the auto industry this week.
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.
The Videos
Cards Against Humanity, but with Facebook Marketplace cars
A newsletter first: same-day plugging. This is CCF Nation’s favorite series, and it’d be just great if you clicked through and watched it like, right now. The news this week sucked so just watch this okay?
This Turbo EF Civic Was Built Against All Odds
All of last week was Readers’ Rides Gauntlet: a 40-email challenge that took like two and a half hours to stream, cut into four parts. This is part two, and the title isn’t a lie.
You can fit WHAT in a Honda Element?
Gauntlet Part 3 includes 240s, a lawnmower, and zero fridges.
This 280HP turbo hot hatch has one big problem
In this video we discover nobody is clicking on a French hot hatch. That really doesn’t engage anyone unfortunately. I still thought it was cool.
The News
GMC Made The Hummer X For Me And My Climbing Polycule, And We Don’t Want It
Can you guess which automotive website this is from without clicking the title?
Jalopnik is more nails than coffin at this point. I don’t know how you even stumble across this content: Netgear found this, somehow.
2027 Toyota GR86 Is Spruced Up with New Colors, Mechanical Tweaks
Maybe Jalopnik is right to just generate garbage for articles instead of talking about actual news. Here’s an article about how the 2027 GR86 is getting a “0.02-inch-wider chamfer for the shift interlock between [fourth and fifth gear]”, but wait, if that’s not exciting enough: it also now comes in gray! Only 13 years late to the party, the new “Thunder” paint code looks exactly like Nardo Grey, a color Audi dropped the same year the very first FT86 was sold. Wow!
Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup
The Slate EV pickup will ship without a built-in modem. Furthermore, they’re not going to force you to use the Slate phone app if you don’t want it. To be honest I didn’t know this was even a possibility in current year.
Ford Says Ditching Sedans Was ‘Absolutely’ the Right Call. Still, It Might Bring Them Back
Ford defends its idiotic choice to move entirely away from cars aside from the Mustang, then vagueposts about the potential to bring a sedan back, calling the sedan market “vibrant”, and suggesting they may produce a sedan under an existing model family, which really only leaves one obvious option, that people have been speculating on for years: a Mustang sedan. This article has a picture of a Fiesta ST in it, so it’s pretty good.
The Cars
1990 Eagle Talon TSi
First year 1G Talon/Eclipse with 29K original miles. Awesome two tone (look up close at the dot matrix transition from black to gray), amazing condition and museum-worthy mileage, but it is unfortunately not AWD. The Eclipse trims differentiate FWD/AWD (GS-T/GSX), but these just get the one. It’s still bad as hell.
1993 Nissan Skyline GT-R
This is an homage to the car Steve McQueen drove in the 1968 film “Bullitt”- oh wait it’s a green R32 GT-R, my bad. Interesting color choice, 122K miles, all-unoriginal, but it does make nearly 500 horsepower (for now) so expect nothing to matter as the bidding war goes nuts at the end.
2001 Ford Mustang Bullitt
THERE it is, the first iteration of the Bullitt-badged Mustang GT. If you’re gonna own a new edge Mustang, and it’s not going to be a Cobra or a Mach 1… why not Bullitt? These have very subtle styling enhancements on the exterior, specifically the side skirts, side fake vent deletes, and C pillar trim I’m pretty confident is just the earlier SN95 version, that make them look great from the side when you ignore the origin of these ugly ass Cragar-style five spokes that literally every Mustang owner has bought reps of since.
I always thought these could have benefitted further from the Cobra extractor hood in place of the ridiculous fake scoop. The OG Mustang fastback in the movie “Bullitt” had no scoop. Anyway. Low miles, nice car, appears to have weird aftermarket headlights, also it’s a northeast car so definitely check that underbody.
2025 Toyota GR86 Hakone Edition
3,400 miles, one of 860 (for the model year). Gotta say I’m not feeling the stripes (or applying the Nike limited-release colorway model to cars). But green is sick, so… Expect a fair bit over MSRP on this. Currently sitting at $33,333 with 3 days to go.
1985 Honda City Cabriolet
It’s a Capsule Corp car brought to life. It’s only included because I’ve never seen one, and I cannot imagine a use case for something like this outside of cruising a beach town and praying you never have to work on it.
The End
Testing continues on the rebirth of /cars. The last 10% will get you every time. Every day I consider just shipping it with a few known issues and fixing them on the fly, but I really want this thing to be a banger from day one. I absolutely ripped through that series I thought I’d finish the project during. Expect a massive influx of clips as bumps, intros, and b-roll in videos moving forward (I took a lot of notes). This is probably going to be the update for a few more newsletters: it’s coming, I’m working on it, but this part gets into minutiae that doesn’t really translate to anything new and exciting day over day.
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See you Soon™.
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