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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

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?

The End

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 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 we wrapped up Readers’ Rides, played a game, and began a rice rocket hunt for frequent collaborator Lil Cargo.

You don’t have to go broke to get off road in a Jeep Grand Cherokee
This wraps up Readers’ Rides for now, still reading emails sent in Q3 2023. There’s a good mix in here: posers, real ones, Brazilians. Something for everyone.

Canada is allowing Chinese EV sales. Is the Canadian auto industry goose cooked? (A Game)
We play Price is Wrong with guest players Lil Cargo and Alan in place of Atlas, who is out ice fishing. Every car shown was built in Canada. It’s kind of shocking how many domestics are built in Canada, or were before the Canadian-Chinese EV Apocalypse of 2026.
Everybody likes a game. If you’re only watching one, this is it.

$10,000 doesn’t buy a whole lot anymore on Facebook Marketplace
Lil Cargo has sung about the 350Z, but has never owned one. We aim to change that in 2026 and begin a Facebook Marketplace hunt with the following constraints: under $10K, can put a big exhaust on it, can put big wheels on it. His requirements, not ours. This search will continue into the following week.

The News

More Than 1 in 5 New Car Buyers in the U.S. Are Taking Out Loans of 84 Months or Longer
If you don’t have an 84 month auto loan, this is a feel good story. Road and Track is letting the auto industry off easy: “The price of goods and commodities has been on a roller coaster ride ever since the Covid-19 pandemic, and as all of us know by now, the automotive industry has been far from immune to such fluctuations.”
It has been six years since Covid. Please come up with a new excuse.

Audi Quietly Ends A8 Orders In Germany, Signaling The Sedan’s Demise
The A8 is dead, but Audi is “leaving the door open” for a “possible successor”. Better be a big door, because you know it’s going to be an SUV.

Jeremy Clarkson defiantly hits back at criticism of The Grand Tour replacements as he makes plea to fans over new trio
The big takeaway here, for me at least, is that they’re bringing back Grand Tour with new hosts. Apparently this has been known for months. In this article, Clarkson says they’re “bloody funny” and so on. The six episode season comes out sometime in 2026.

Acura Will Sell Its First Model Ever In Japan
The title is not the interesting part of the story, which is weird. Honda is going to import American-made cars to sell in Japan in the second half of 2026. They’re bringing over the Integra and Passport Elite. Good luck shilling that underpowered, overpriced, rebadged hunk of shit at home.

The Cars

14-Mile 2003 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra Coupe 10th Anniversary Edition
This Terminator sold for $175,067. Not a typo, not a moved decimal. If you ever wanted an 03-04 Cobra, well… you can’t afford it anymore. It’s over.
Obviously this is an extreme example, and to be very real, it’s been over for a while now. The Terminator has been a true neoclassic collector car nearly since its inception. These were never cheap. Equivalent F bodies have always been a more sensible purchase. But this locks it in: the Terminator is off limits to enthusiasts. It’s a showroom and museum piece now.

45k-Mile 2006 Subaru Baja Turbo
The value of an automatic Subaru Baja Turbo is often debated on Collector Car Feed, but rarely is it demonstrated on BaT. This one sold for $15,500, and while the miles are low, the whole car has been resprayed (that’s bad). It makes one wonder what an all-original stick shift turbo might sell for. We’ll keep an eye out.

Ongoing Auctions

2013 Ford Focus ST
Lightly modded, 120K on the clock, but at time of writing it’s sitting at $6600 with a day left, and there are no accidents on record. There’s a lot of good here.

2000 Lexus ES 300
You’re about to see demonstrated the power of grave robbing. This is an unremarkable Lexus sedan with 44,000 miles on the clock being sold out of Florida. The ES 300 is very much just a dressed up V6 Toyota Camry; for that reason expect this to sell for over ten grand.
You could make a decent living off Florida estate sale cars like this one.

2002 BMW M3 Coupe
I just like Phoenix Yellow. This is a $40K+ car. Does it feel like the E46 M3 never dipped?

Final Thoughts

In a recent video, I promised to give away a choice piece of automotive memorabilia: a 2009 Super Street calendar. The days from 2009 line up with 2026, so you can use it this year! It’s actually two calendars in one: one side is all cars, and one side is all HOT BABES. You can flip it over if your mom’s coming up the stairs.
Want to win it? Scroll up and sign up for the weekly email newsletter. I gave this one away already, but I have a couple more.

See you Soon.
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This is Collector Car TL;DR: a weekly recap of what happened on Collector Car Feed, plus car auctions, listings, automotive news… Things of interest to someone who might watch Collector Car Feed. You know, you.
And you can get it weekly by giving me your email address.

The Videos

This past week in Collector Car Feed videos was Readers’ Rides: the viewer car review segment. Please don’t send your car right now, we’re a little backed up. But if you do send it to the right email address, we will have no choice but to take a look eventually. We’re currently working on Q3 2023.

Unheard of: he said he was going to turbo his car “some day”, and then he did
This episode highlights a young New Zealander’s JZX100. In his email from 2023, he states he plans to turbo the NA motor “soon”. The cohosts universally agree “soon” means “never”, but what happens next will shock you.

Got flexed on by a high school kid. Is this the hardest slammed Toyota on earth?
The cover truck here speaks for itself; a Subaru DL owner also builds an engine from a box of scraps.

The Subaru WRX you can drive without letting people know you drive a WRX
The Legacy GT is presented. Quoting the owner: “I have had this Subaru for two years. I have honestly learned quite a bit [about] how reliable Subarus really are: they are not.”

This video includes my favorite email of the bunch, so, watch this one if you’re only watching one.

The News

If Americans Don’t Want Small Cars, Why Did This Honda Fit Only Depreciate $1,180 In Eleven Years?
The Autopian reports on a Bring A Trailer listingin which a 1600 original mile Fit sells for $18,000. It’s even a CVT. Gross!

Yes, It’s Going to Be Much Harder to Get a Nissan Z in 2027
Nissan is switching to a “made to order” system for the Z. Considering I’ve spotted three outside of SEMA since they entered production in 2022, this basically means we’re never going to see another new Z ever again.

Stellantis reports first annual loss, no profit-sharing checks to UAW employees from 2025
Year over year sales are down 2% for Stellantis between 2024 and 2025, and if you’re surprised… how? All the leftover Challengers and Chargers are gone and peak Jeep Wrangler was what, a decade ago now? This begs the question: when will the aftermarket start making angry eyes and grilles with cheekbones for the Bronco?

The Cars

1988 Nissan 200SX
Already sold, this was an S12: the Cope 240SX. This also wasn’t a turbo model, just a base, and it even has a salvage title. But at 31,000 miles on the clock and a $4500 asking price with the guarantee that it “runs and drives great”, anybody can see how it sold quick. Expect to see this one up for auction soon, probably on Cars and Bids.

1,600-Mile 2015 Honda Fit EX
As mentioned, this CVT dorkmobile sold for eighteen grand, proving there is a market, at least to one guy, for a sub-$20K subcompact.
This was actually proven last summer when a 2019 Fiesta ST sold for $18,250. What a better purchase by every imaginabe metric.

Ongoing Auctions

2016 Ford Fiesta ST
This FiST just looks good on those RPF1s, and it has the optional Recaro seats. I kind of want to buy it and swap those parts over to my black Fiesta ST (also a Cars and Bids purchase). This one is kind of a basket case and I expect the price to stay low, even though it won’t, because Cars and Bids bidders are mentally ill. A statement by the owner: “The car was tuned from 5k miles up until 75k miles when I installed a big turbo; that engine ate cylinder 1 around 93k miles due to a bad tune.” Classic.

2000 Toyota Celica GT
This 7th gen Celica GT auction ends today. At time of writing, it’s at $6850. It has 48,400 miles, somehow wound up on aftermarket wheels, and almost certainly burns tons of oil regardless of its mileage (this is a 1ZZ powered base model, not the desirable GT-S). But you never see 7th gen Celicas with mileage like this. I’m guessing it doesn’t really have legs and will stop around $8500.

2003 Nissan 350Z Coupe
Worst year, worst trim, worst color, timebomb transmission, mediocre mileage (~110,000), accident on record, known flaws include basic work you’d expect to be done before sale at auction. And yet, somehow, this will go over ten grand.

1991 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo
This is a USDM 300ZX TT. It has 6900 miles. It’s at $85,000 at time of writing with 3 days to go. I hope the high bidder is sweating bullets, because low miles or not, this is no Supra. Really nice car, hope you never make your money back.

Final Thoughts

It’s been a week of nothing but bad news from automakers, while at the same time prices soar at auction for both late model hoopties and neoclassic halo cars. Is it rose colored glasses, or is the landscape really just that bleak? Let me know at collectorcarfeed@gmail.com.
See you Soon.
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This is Collector Car TL;DR: a weekly recap of what happened on Collector Car Feed, plus car auctions, listings, automotive news… Things of interest to someone who might watch Collector Car Feed. You know, you.
And you can get it weekly by giving me your email address.

The Videos

This past week in Collector Car Feed videos includes bargain performance cars and one to watch out for if you’ve ever dreamed of a nice car flip come up.

Converting my Toyota MR2 into a Ford RS200 part 1: bodywork
I may have been a bit of a Scotty Kilmer with this title: a little too clickbaity. But the topic does come up: someone turned a second gen MR2 into an RS200, much in the same way Justin Long was turned into a walrus in Tusk.

The Ford Focus ST is bottoming out in price. Under $6500 on Cars and Bids
This starts a two video Cars and Bids roundup; in this one we find some cheap Focus STs. Vukos explains that he’s “a Scotty Kilmer” because he now owns two key Scotty-approved vehicles. We also discover the horrors of Burt Toyota Englewood, a thankfully defunct dealership and automotive torture facility. If you’re going to watch one video this week, make it this one.

Find one of these rare Toyotas before the Cars & Bids resellers take them all
This is a continuation of the Focus video: more Cars and Bids browsing. The title focuses on my favorite car in the video: a Toyota Corolla XRS, in fact the first and only XRS ever sold on Cars and Bids. It sold for $13,000 (low miles, ~7000 total produced in two year production run). If you find one of these for sale near you, email me: collectorcarfeed@gmail.com

The News

A Subaru Baja Revival Might Happen. Could It Come Here to Fight the Maverick?
The easiest fight of Ford’s life is shaping up as an Aussie Subaru exec says “There have been discussions of a ute”. The Drive really made a meal out of that sentence.

They Mocked Minivans For Years, Now Americans Are Fueling A Massive Sales Surge
…is a weird way to say minivan sales are up 34% in Canada (and 20% in the United States). 110,006 Pacificas sold in the US, 101,486 Siennas. Are there other minivans? Don’t know.

World’s Ugliest Car Manufacturer CEO Says the Era of Manual Transmissions Is Nearly Over
Frank van Meel says BMW’s current transmission is limited to 440 pound-feet of torque, and there’s just no way transmission manufacturers could make something stronger, as the power of performance cars increases. An absurd statement to get you ready for the day (coming soon) when BMW finally pulls the plug on the stick shift.

The Cars

2005 Toyota Corolla XRS
Like I said, this sold for $13,000. Fantastic find. Low production numbers, two year run, six speed manual, the best four banger they were making at the time, It’s a Corolla, this really does have it all. Absolutely the auction of the week.

1991 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
A viewer sent this in to collectorcarfeed@gmail.com and it’s nice to see a rare DSM, but this one is in standard Facebook DSM condition: a picture of a 471 peak horsepower dyno sheet is included, but it “needs a tune”, has an oil leak “coming from somewhere”, is a salvage title (whatever)… But it’s OBO, so go lowball this guy and ruin your spring.

1980 Looney Tunes El Camino
Included for the faded hood artwork in which Taz looks like Blanca from Street fighter. There’s more on the sides. Not bad, worth a click.

Ongoing Auctions

1999 Toyota RAV4 Convertible
It’s the perfect first gen Rav4: two door, 4×4, stick. This one has 121,XXX miles. That’s low for the year but not low for the earth, and you can still find similar examples floating around. It’ll be interesting to see what this goes for.

2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STI
880 miles, blessed by Doug Himself, and the best facelift of this generation? No wonder it’s at $67,000 with three days to go. MSRP was ~$32,000. Will we see it tripled? Will we see six figures? Definitely one to watch.

Final Thoughts

I’m going to leave you with this edit of Netgear57 saying which cars he would and would not drive. “I’d drive it” is a philosophy we can and should all get behind. What does it mean to you?

Have any feedback? Want to contribute? Want to sell your car? collectorcarfeed@gmail.com