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
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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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