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Mein Gott that’s bad

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

The Videos

This past week in Collector Car Feed videos was pretty great, I’m talking S-tier every day:

One deranged man thinks he can save them all: welcome to the Isuzone
One of us bought yet another Isuzu SUV. His driveway has hit capacity so this one’s going to live in the back yard. He swears it isn’t a problem. This is a key lore episode: we will absolutely continue to talk about this purchase.

Every Aftermarket Jeep Grille Ranked
Wrangler sales are down and Bronco sales are up (praise the Ford), but the Angry Jeep Face persists on the streets and in our minds, so we put every single one Netgear could find on a classic tier list.

Hunting for real stolen cars on Facebook Marketplace
This is one of our best performing videos in months, at least over the first few days. Our audience loves stolen cars and poverty rides, but it also happens to be a great video. They’re really out there and they’re not hard to find.

The News

The Next BMW M3 front end design has been leaked
Scroll up. That first image is the new M3. We were all wondering how they were going to add more kidney to this grille. They did it by letting the kidneys consume the headlights, coincidentally making the whole thing look like the 1999 Pontiac GTO concept car.

Subaru is discontinuing the WRX in Japan
It’s almost certainly not a permanent goodbye, but Subaru is pulling the plug on the WRX in the Japanese market, and news sources are citing noise and emissions regulations as the culprits. The CVT-only WRX is too loud and inefficient to be sold in Japan.

Jaguar’s Design Boss Is Officially Leaving The Company
It’s unclear if he was fired or quit, but Jaguar’s lead designer for the past two decades is out. Weirdly the article only mentions him having designed the Land Rover Defender, Land Rover Evoque, and most recently the Jaguar Type 00 Concept, which is linked to that disastrous Jaguar rebranding campaign you probably already forgot about. There’s a picture of it in the article, and they call the design “highly controversial”, but I thought it was kind of cool, if you can separate it from, again, that awful commercial they made that the entire world absolutely hated. Feels like this guy is being punished for the marketing department’s mistakes, but what do I know.

The Cars

2016 Ford Focus ST
This would be a great match for my shadow black Fiesta ST, but the secret seems to be out on these and they’re hitting new heights all the time bid-wise on these online auction platforms. 54,000 miles, one owner, ST3 package and optioned just right (everything except the upgrade wheels; the snowflakes are better). Those options are leather heated Recaros, heated leather steering wheel, Sync 3 (Carplay/Android Auto compatible), sunroof. And it’s a facelift! The only negative are a couple accidents on record, which the Cars and Bids crowd will completely ignore as they run the price up to probably around $20,000, which is deep into Ecoboost Mustang territory.
I know, you hate all of this. You’ll come around, but until you do, let’s look at something else.

1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo
This is actually the only other ongoing auction I have saved from the past week. It’s been slim pickings. 144K on the clock and three days left as of this writing. It’s a real turbo, not a swap. It’s more or less unmolested and has a clean title. There’s no mention of any accidents. The mileage is the major drawback here, and it’s an SW20 so of course it’s leaking oil. Luckily the seller has no record of the timing belt having ever been done, so you can replace all the front side seals when you do that critical piece of work.
This unmaintained, meh-mileage MR2 Turbo should sell for around $10,000, but I’d bet on $14,500 as the final price.

1995 Ford Taurus SHO
This is actually TWO 1995 SHOs, both in project car condition, for $1500 OBO. They’re both stick shift. I wish I had Netgear-level space for derelict vehicles when I see things like this.

Lamborghini Countach Replica
Classic: it’s a Fiero wearing a Lambo suit. Check out the old school hood pins on the frunk. Doug says “for those who want the eye-catching Countach look without the eye-watering Countach price, Pontiac Fiero-based replicas like this can be a lot of fun.”
Doug, when are you going to stand up for yourself? I know you didn’t write this.

Ferrari 308 GTB Replica
Classic: it’s a Fiero wearing a Ferrari suit. And of course, Doug loves it: “The Ferrari 308 GTB is an iconic ’80s poster car – but not everyone can afford (or wants to maintain) the real thing, and that’s where high-quality replicas serve a great purpose.”
This will probably sell for more than the MR2 Turbo above. Which would you rather have: the Poor Man’s Ferrari, or the Complete Idiot’s Ferrari?

Final Thoughts

I gave away several more Scion CD Samplers to people who read this in their email earlier today. Could have been you, man. I have a whole box of ’em. Some other junk too. Get the email, scroll back up.

See you Soon.
-Feed

Ford remains based in the face of collapsing interest

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

This past week in Collector Car Feed videos was all in on a $10,000 or less tuner car hunt for collaborator and friend of the show Lil Cargo. Each episode is a mélange of various makes and models and Facebook Marketplace detritus discovered along the way.

Honda made a new Prelude, but the best generation didn’t change.
We glaze the 5th gen Prelude, and for good reason. Have you seen the new one? What a disaster. A Honda Fit and Mazda MX-6 are also featured.

You just needed a G35 this whole time
This one includes a GTI, a Civic hatch, RX-8, and the Matrix XRS, along with an import lore-building side tangent from Netgear57 about being bested by an elderly woman Baja owner. Hers is a stick! Only watching one? Do this one. I have a feeling that manual Baja is going to come up again later.

“A dude with no pull out game *would* drive an automatic”
Vukos said this, I’m pretty sure, about a Genesis coupe that was in fact a stick shift. I looked at a bunch of Genesis interiors and I don’t think they had the leather fake shift boot thing on their automatics.
This episode concludes the hunt, and ends with Lil Cargo petitioning you, the CCF enjoying public, to vote for the next Lil Cargo song subject. At the moment, the Baja is leading the poll.

The News

Ford CEO Farley: They’ll Have to Rip the Mustang’s Stick Shift ‘Out of Our Cold, Dead Hands’
Chevy is out. Dodge is out. BMW is making up excuses, so they’ll be out soon enough too. But Ford is threatening the auto industry over stick shifts. It’s never been a better time to start liking Ford. Have I mentioned they didn’t take the federal bailout?
But really the article is just about the Mustang GT. The highest trims have lost the manual, and so has it been stripped from the base model. Ford claims they didn’t sell enough stick shift Ecoboosts to justify keeping that option around. Sure, dude.

The Voyager Is Dead, Which Means Chrysler Is Officially A One-Car Brand
I reported a while back that minivan sales are up. Meanwhile, Chrysler is dropping their cheaper minivan marque. They now sell exactly one model: the Pacifica.

Facing heavy losses, Honda cancels its three US-made electric vehicles
Apparently Honda was going to make an EV version of the RSX, which would have been their third zombified model nobody ever wanted in recent years. Thankfully, this one is dead in the water.
Seriously scroll back up to the top of this thing. That yellow crossover SUV? They were going to call that the RSX. I swear to god this is real. They’re claiming tariffs and blah blah blah but I really want to believe the Prelude’s spectacular failure knocked some sense into Honda.

The Cars

1989 Nissan Pathfinder SE V6 4×4
860 original miles on this Doug-blessed first-gen two-door Pathfinder. It sold within spitting distance of thirty thousand American dollars, and is absolutely beautiful. Any Nissan showroom would be proud to house this thing for another forty years, were Nissan to last that long (it won’t).

1991 Acura NSX
Is Doug really writing the Doug’s Takes? Did he really say “this looks like a really cool NSX”?

Being that Doug is a well-off Californian millionaire, I just don’t see him taking the time out of his week to write literally hundreds of these little blurbs on every single listing. So is it Doug selling out and saying he loves absolute trash, or is it Cars and Bids staffers using his likeness to promote absolute trash? Either way, THIS… is not a good look. Is that really an NRG quick release?

Ongoing:

2005 BMW 3 series 330i Sedan 4D
The owner of this BMW needs out for his own mental health. “Super clean no rust but I just hate this car and cannot stand it”. Shame about the mileage, but for $3000 or best reasonable offer, how wrong can you really go here?

1971 Ford F100
A stunner from the outside with perfect patina, bastardized with a 4.8 LS under the hood. Its identity might be a bit confused but she’s still a looker.

Final Thoughts

I gave away several Scion CD Samplers to people who read this in their email earlier today. Could have been you, man.

See you Soon.
-Feed