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The Videos

Honda Civic situation on Facebook is crazy
It’s CCF Nation’s second-favorite gameshow: The Price is Wrong (PiW), and today it’s all Hondas. In PiW, contestants guess the asking prices of Facebook Marketplace listings, with the asking price increasing every round. The closest without going over receives the asking price in points; on nice episodes like this one, the two highest scoring players face off in a Showcase Showdown.

His Subaru blew up on their first date and she ghosted him
Netgear tells a tale of woe. Is it possible this is only the first date ruined by his brother’s WRX?

If you modify the bank’s car, you will never pay it off.
More poverty content: cars with “money still owed”. How far in the hole can you be on a G37 sedan in 2026? We investigate.

The News

Pray the Gray Away: Experts Say More People Want Brightly Colored Cars
“…the market share of colored car paints has increased by [ALMOST TWO PERCENT LMAO] in recent years.“
I’ve been seeing more colorful cars out on the road lately; particularly many, many Eruption Green Broncos and Bronco Sports. It’s a great color. But yeah, two percent. It’s up two percent. Everything is still white, black, gray, silver.

The Nissan Z Is Thriving Thanks to an Unlikely Hero: Your Parents
“We’re getting a lot of older buyers coming and buying this car, as a trophy car, a retirement car, whatever else,” Nissan America’s boss exclusively told The Drive.
For some reason, The Drive is reporting that Nissan is… bragging…? that the only people buying Zs are nostalgic boomers. The title says the Z is “thriving”, but Nissan sold 5,487 Zs in the United States in all of 2025, its third year in production. Compare that to the 350Z, which sold 36,728 units on introduction in 2003.
“Oh, but CCF, it’s unfair to compare the 350Z’s inaugural model year to some random mid-generation year,” you’ll say. 
Well, that’s more Zs than Nissan sold in 2023 and 2024 combined. So I guess that’s thriving, in a way, if your expectations are absolutely through the floor because you’re Nissan and your CEO fled the country in a big box.

A New Chevy Camaro Will Join Buick and Cadillac Sedans
GM is building a new Camaro, and it’s going to be assembled in the United States, which hasn’t really been a GM move for quite some time (even with that big bailout). I can’t find a solid source on this news: Car And Driver links to Auto News, who cites “a source”. This is a real “trust me guys,” but it sure is believable. They claim production will start in 2027.

Kia unveils midsize pickup plan for North America in pursuit of Toyota Tacoma and Ford Ranger
Kia’s CEO said they’re going to sell a midsize pickup in the United States by 2030. It’s going to be an EV with or without a gas generator. The Tacoma and Ranger are just in the title for engagement, because those trucks have fans.

Honda Drivers Now Have to Pay a Subscription to Open Their Garage Door
So this article is about a Reddit thread in which the author states Honda has “moved the garage door opener from a button on the mirror to a paywall subscription service”. And that sounds downright terrible. This garnered thousands of angry comments damning Honda and their dystopian plot, comparing them to BMW’s pay-to-play heated seats subscription drama.

But ultimately, this entire article and the thread it’s based on were just misinformed clickbait. OP was describing a Homelink mirror, which was never standard on Hondas. It was an option, and it still is: it’s $461 in the Honda Passport configurator. OP is just an angry cheapskate.

It has been a very slow news week.

The Cars

2003 Ford Focus SVT
This one ends in just a few hours. It leaks oil from everywhere it can, has numerous minor body issues, has two accidents on record, has 165,000 miles, and is being sold by someone who bought it approximately one year ago (this is a red flag write it down), but even still, these are just Y2K perfection. There’s nothing here not to like other than all that stuff I said.

2005 Porsche Cayenne Turbo
They keep selling these “Transsyberia tributes” on Cars and Bids for what looks like good money. I don’t know anything about Porsche Cayennes, but this is a 200,000 mile 20 year old hood missile. It’s the nice one, but still, 200K. This has to be worthless, right?

1998 BMW M3 Coupe
76K original miles on an E36 M3 is pretty remarkable, but…

2001 BMW M3 Convertible
…This one’s only three years newer and has a TENTH of the miles. 7,100 on the clock. It’s even Laguna Seca Blue. Shame about that roof though.

1990 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo
The low-mileage streak continues with this Z32TT (67,000 on the odometer). I think it’s just the early ones like this that have the guts made entirely out of S13 door card insert material. It has the same non-airbag steering wheel as the S13 also. If you’re wondering, like me, why the 300ZX didn’t have automatic seatbelts while also having no airbag, it’s because they mounted the seatbelts to the doors instead of the B pillar, allowing you to just leave them buckled all the time, making them automatic. They added a driver side airbag in 1992, and then in 1994 added a passenger one as well and moved the belts to the B pillar. Anyway, these are starting to take off in price, and this auction won’t help potential buyers: expect big money on it.

1999 Toyota RAV4 Convertible
Two door first gen Rav4s are just cute as hell. Five speed too. Great seat pattern. 121K isn’t bad either. This one sold on Cars and Bids last month for $9600, and the buyer backed out. Read the comments on both: people are claiming it’s loaded up with rust even though it’s a Florida car, then you see it has a NJ title, and it’s being sold on behalf of someone by “CARWOWMIAMI”… some chump is about to get hosed here (allegedly/in my opinion), so follow this auction and see how bad it gets.

The Doug’s Take Drama Continues

Looks like some character is karma-farming on Doug N Bids with a fake Doug’s Take meme account. Good for him.
Look at the comment history from just a few days here. Then, imagine Doug DeMuro sitting down and writing that much every day for years. Has Doug ever publicly stated that Cars & Bids was just using his name and obviously Doug wasn’t actually writing a paragraph on every auction car?

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I sent out all the prizes from all previous CCF newsletters this week. I took zero duplicate winners, so I was able to send EVERYONE the same Scion Sampler CD. Winners, please enjoy Volume 23. Did you get yours? I’ve been listening to it all week. Maybe we’re listening to it at the same time, and at night, if we both look at the moon…

Update on the Recaros: I like them. Some smug Canadian told me when I posted about them on Instagram that all Fiesta STs in Canada got them, that they weren’t an option like they were here in the US. He is right to be smug, just this once. The confidence boost these give you in your driving ability is downright dangerous.

But the junkyard I bought them from kind of screwed me. I bought a 2015 driver seat and 2014 passenger and rear. They had both in the same yard. The 2015 driver seat looked a lot cleaner, but the passenger seat was blown. The 2014 had a full set but the driver seat looked a little beat compared to the 2015. It’s one of those places where they pull for you. Full service. But they pulled the full set out of the 2014 and gave it to me without saying anything, and I, like a sucker, did not notice until I was cleaning them hundreds of miles away. Whenever you spend money on anything car-related, triple check every possible variable, because everybody out here is trying to chisel you.

This week a lucky Collector Car Feed mailing list subscriber read this early and won a stack of DVDs I found in my basement. It could have been you!

See you Soon™.
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This is no April Fools

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

Keeping the “punching down” spirit alive, we looked at Altimas for three videos in a row last week.

The Crime Adjacent Nissan Altimas of Facebook MarketplaceWe start off searching for the peak Altima of the hood missile era: the Altima SE-R. Available with a six speed manual mated to the VQ35DE, it’s “basically a 350Z” according to numerous Facebook Marketplace sellers.

Hunting America’s Most Dangerous Car on Facebook MarketplaceThe Altima hunt widens as we take a look at some 90s Altimas for a change of pace, along with an absolute timebomb and a destroyed demolition derby example.

Nissan Altima Survival Tactics
This one starts out with a no title “if you know you know” Altima but quickly devolves into a classic game of spelling words with letters from old Del Taco signage. Watch this one if you’re only doing one: it’s my highest effort of the week.

The News

CARS AND BIDS DROPS DOUG’S TAKE
No link on this; I just noticed while putting this post together. Go to any auction on Cars & Bids and notice “Doug’s Take” has vanished.

“Doug’s Take” was allegedly Doug DeMuro’s personal opinion on literally every car listed for sale on Cars & Bids and was a staple of the site’s format until around April 1st, but its removal doesn’t appear to be a joke.
Was Doug tired of doing it? Were they all ghost written by C&B staffers? I checked the Cars & Bids newsletters and there’s no mention of this change. This is a developing story. Check back next week.

Formula Drift signs exclusive broadcast deal with Racer Network
If you want to watch Formula D this year, you won’t be watching on YouTube. Does this signal a complete collapse in stateside interest in drifting as a sport?

Get Caught Speeding In Illinois? You Soon Might Have To Install A Speed Limiter
If you get caught excessively speeding multiple times in a single year, Illinois may install a device on your car that limits you to within ten miles of the speed limit. Jalopnik (who?) cheers on this authoritarian cash grab.

Slate Auto Wants to Be Known for Crank Windows
“When was the last time you cranked your own window?” In an impressive attempt at spin, the budget EV startup is attempting to pitch manual windows as a virtue. Notably, this company also plans to make radios an add-on. And that’s notable at the moment because…

Dodge CEO Asks ‘Do You Need a Radio’ in ‘Back-to-Basics’ Quest for Entry-Level Cars
“Do you need a radio? Do you just have speakers that you Bluetooth to?” says Dodge’s CEO, copy/pasting an idea Slate brought to the table a year ago. The race to the bottom is full steam ahead.

The Cars

1999 Nissan Silvia
This is a swapped, originally non-turbo S15 Silvia, sitting on “Shogun” wheels wrapped in Nankangs, so you know this is pretty much bottom of the barrel, although the towers do look fine as does the underside. Pretty mid overall, but these don’t come up for auction every day.

1978 Datsun 280Z
Speaking of half measures, here’s an S30 with a look that spans generations. It’s a late 70s car with a late 90s bodykit and a 2000s engine swap.
The half measures: this “ground effects package” is typically used to cover up the ubiquitous body rust first gen Zs are known for. Is that the case here? Hard to say, but people are going to assume as much when you roll up in it. The GM powerplant is great, but they did all that work just to put a 4L60E in. The stereo also appears to be a bluetooth speaker in the center console. Since this is basically a Slate, expect this to go for mid $30s even though it’s currently in the $20s.

1994 Toyota Supra
This Supra’s claim to fame is being a “Fast and the Furious promo car”, which amounts to this car being owned by a British movie theater chain. They parked it out front for several months during the first Fast and the Furious movie’s theatrical run. So basically this means absolutely nothing. European domestic market with a US title, riced to hell, but hey, there’s a US-spec 2JZ-GTE in there, no shit. It’s hard to imagine a MkIV going for less than wherever this one finishes.

2002 Honda Civic Type R
Hachi machi, here’s a hard-to-justify, but cool nonetheless Civic. EP3 generation in a trim we didn’t get, sitting just over the border in Winnipeg. But it’s hard to justify because even though it’s a top of the line, rare trim (for us in the US), it barely puts out more horsepower than the next generation, abundantly available Si. Four days to go.

The End

Gave away three more Scion Sampler CDs to the newsletter subscribers this week. You should have been there. Scroll up, give me your email.

I picked up my junkyard FiST Recaros this past week, deep cleaned them, and installed. They are not messing around: the bolstering is extreme. It might be a little too extreme for a daily driver. I’m kind of on the fence at the moment, but I’m going to give them a month at least before making a decision. Driving in them feels incredible, but ingress/egress is ridiculous when I’m just trying to go to the post office or something. If it was a second car they’d be a no-brainer, though. Anyway,

See you Soon™.
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…allegedly

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

We Found MORE Stolen Cars on Facebook Marketplace
The Stolen Cars trilogy continued last Monday with this video. We found a car being sold out from under the bank, a Chromebook being sold out from under a school, and much more in the same vein.

No title, if you know you know: even more stolen Facebook Marketplace cars
This concludes the Stolen Cars Trilogy; unfortunately we kind of run out of stolen cars here, but there’s still plenty of weird Facebook Marketplace junk. Did you know Maxpeedingrods makes coilovers for the Buick Century? Me neither, but there’s a slammed one in this video.

We found something unbelievably expensive at the junkyard
Netgear copped a sick pull at the yard and tells us all about it. This is another important lore-building video for real CCF heads and ends with an edit I’m pretty proud of, so this is my one-video recommendation for the week.

The News

The 2027 Nissan Z Visits the Plastic Surgeon, and the Nismo Now Comes With a Manual
Nissan just facelifted that car you saw on the street, driving the other direction, one time, three years ago. They will also now sell you the ~$70,000 version of this thing with a manual gearbox. Honestly it looks good, and “more stick shifts” isn’t a bad thing. It’s just hard to get excited for anything this ghost of a once-great marque does. Good luck, Nissan.

Mazda Promises To Keep The Next Miata Under 2,200 Pounds
The next Miata won’t be a pig, or even a hybrid as some have guessed. It’s going to remain the same well-balanced enthusiast-forward car, bought new almost exclusively by non-enthusiast retirees, that it has been for almost forty years. We appreciate you, Mazda.

The Ford Mustang GTD Might Have Just Destroyed the Chevy Corvette ZR1X’s Nurburgring Lap Record
Ford is, allegedly, at time of writing, now the fastest American around the ‘Ring. The absurd Mustang GTD is now, allegedly, the second-fastest production car, EVER, around the ‘Ring. Have I mentioned lately that Ford didn’t take bailout money back in ’08-’09, or ever in its history?

Kansas Joins Growing List of States to Pass Racetrack Protection Laws
The Kansas House of Representatives just passed, unanimously, a bill to protect existing racetracks from NIMBYs who choose to buy homes in subdivisions near them. This is not performative: dorks actually complain about the noise coming from racetracks they choose to live near, and actually get racetracks shut down. It really happens, but no more will it happen in Kansas. Iowa And North Carolina have already passed similar legislation, and ten additional states (not listed) have proposed similar bills.

The Cars

2000 Honda Civic Si
This is a beautiful example of an EM1 and will go for a fortune. 76,900 miles verified, single owner, stock. It has some sunburn on the roof, but that’s not going to stop this car from reaching $20K.

1996 Buick Roadmaster Sedan
Another beautiful example: this time a desirable American neoclassic. We love a good boat here. Imagine going on a road trip in this thing; if nothing else you’d be very, very comfortable. Everybody even gets their own ashtray!

2009 Rossion Q1
I’m including this only because I’ve never seen or heard of it. I assumed it was a Fiero-based kit car, but it’s a ground-up kit with a carbon fiber monocoque. Something different.

1993 Mercedes-Benz 500SL
And here we have Doug’s weekly humiliation ritual, in which he says only nice things about one of the worst looking cars you’ve ever seen. Really zoom in on this wrap job. Even in the first picture it’s just awful. Scroll down to the comments and have a laugh at the seller saying it was wrapped by him and “someone who is familiar with wrapping”. I wouldn’t let this person wrap a Christmas present, they might lose a finger on the scissors. Holy god what an awful looking job.

1993 Acura Integra LS Coupe
Another nice verified low mileage Honda that will go for a small(er) fortune, this second-gen Integra is unfortunately not a GS-R, and is a little crusty around the edges. You can still bank on $10K or better here regardless.

1992 Nissan 240SX SE
This car is really only notable because 240s don’t really come up for auction much on either BaT or CaB. This is the second on Cars and Bids in the past six months, and third in the past year and a half. Scrolling back even farther to the beginning of Doug’s Bring a Trailer knockoff, this is only the 21st 240SX CaB has listed since the platform’s inception during the coronavirus pandemic. 


As for the car itself, it’s your usual swapped 240SX: a mishmash of parts. Mystery Meat. There’s nice parts, there’s confusing absences, there’s modern stuff, there’s parts that look like they were installed decades ago. It’s a project car, but with SR20s priced like it’s a week before Race Wars, I expect $20K or more on this.

The End

Sheesh, somebody got a Super Street magazine calendar that matches up with 2026 days, AND a Scion CD today. You really should have signed up for the mailing list already! Scroll up.

I finally found a set of Recaros for my FiST, but they’re a ten hour round trip drive away, so I’m probably doing that right now! I also replaced my rear pads and rotors, and will be doing the fronts this week as well. I’m still hunting a minor vibration in the front end that only shows up around 50-80 MPH. Thinking it’s a wheel bearing.
The midwest is warming up, so it’s time to get moving. What did you work on this past week?

See you Soon.
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