For $22,500, Get a Porsche Pervertible

Some Porsche purists refuse to acknowledge any of the brand's offerings after the 356. Today's Coupe/Speedster is a dream for the vinyl fetishists among those purists, but will its price make it ignored? In California we have a three-strikes law which pretty much keeps our prison system cooking. Some of...

May 2, 2026

For $9,900, Be On a Mission From God

For today's : It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model built before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. Sure, the Bluesmobile was a Monaco, and had the casual rumpled appearance of a coal...

May 2, 2026

For $995, Rocky Mountain High, But No High-Low

Denver is called the Mile High City, and winter driving there is made easier with 4WD. Today's Tercel has that, but does its combination of condition and price make you think the seller is high? Debuting in 1990, Cop Rock was a strange mash-up of cop drama and musical from...

May 2, 2026

For $35,000, Who Could Drive an M3 Only 2,977 Miles?

BMW touts each its cars as being the Ultimate Driving Machine. If that's really the case, then why was today's E36 M3 ultimately driven so little? Serviceable cars priced under a grand are like catnip around here, and yesterday's fun and funky poofed a lot of tails. Even though it...

May 2, 2026

For $3,500, Ran When Jeeves Parked It

British cars and honkin' big American V8s go together like peas and carrots, but today's 440-powered Jensen Interceptor is rough enough that you might just lose your appetite. No, no, thirty five thousand times no. There was no way, no matter how few miles where on it, that anybody was...

May 2, 2026

For $39,995, OMG, They Killed Ferrari, You Bastards!

Ferrari once maintained that to carry the Prancing Horse, a road car must also carry twelve cylinders. Less a stickler, the owner of today's 1964 330 GT 2+2 says eight is enough. In 1936, King Edward the Inbred VIII abdicated the British throne so he could marry American Wallace and...

May 2, 2026

For $29,500, They Call Me Mister Two

The MR2 eschewed Toyota's reputation for beigeness, and brought mid-engines to the masses. Today's custom MR2 Spyder takes the car's anti-beige persona to over-saturation, but at a price you might find a little off-color. Toyota's first generation MR2 ill-advisedly took many of its styling cues from Ferrari's Mondial 2+2. Despite...

May 2, 2026

Ten Reasons America Needs the Audi RS3 Sportback

Audi sent me deep into America's wooly hat to sample its latest Quattro drive hardware on ice. They also let me dip my toe into the RS3, implicitly to make its case for import to America. Bait taken. Let's roll. I took the RS3 Sportback—which goes on sale this quarter...

May 2, 2026

For $1,000, Get Le’d

When it comes to windows, toast, and kissing, the French do it better. With today's Renault, you can determine if that streak extends to le cars. Extended is also the description one could use for the fenders and Pinocchio-esque nose of yesterday's , a car that also came with doors...

May 2, 2026

For $57,500, This Volvo P1800 ES Rocks an Eight, Seeks Attention Whores

Most Volvos are square, but the P1800 is one that lets you think outside the box. Today's P1800 ES rocks a Corvette 327, but does its price stink outside the box? A good way to learn French is by watching the TV show French in Action, especially as you'd be...

May 2, 2026

For $1,500, The Art Limo Asks You to Give This Lincoln a Shot

Art isn't just a guy with no arms and no legs hanging on your wall. And as today's Lincoln Limo proves, it's also in the eye of the beholder. I asked you yesterday to behold what one individual considered an artistic creation - that of a that had been mated...

May 2, 2026

For $7,500, It’s a Familiale Affair

La Résistance française, or the French Resistance, bedeviled their Nazi occupiers during WWII. Potentially, today's Citroën's complexities could be as vexing, but could you resist its price? Philistines, that's what you are. Well, at least the 45.14% of you who lack an appreciation for artistic expression. For the rest of...

May 2, 2026

For $12,000, Civic Doody

The is related to the giraffe, despite its ruddy red coat, and striped socks making it appear the unholy offspring of horse and zebra. Today's Civic is equally confusing, but is its price unholy? Conflicted personas are nothing new. You probably know Vincent Damon Furnier better by his stage name...

May 2, 2026

For $3,900, Mustang Sally Goes Nurse Diesel

Sporting a pair of Merlins, the twin fuselage was one freaky Mustang. If that oddball plane rocks your clock, you might find today's equally incongruous Ford Mustang twin turbo-diesel also a flight of fancy. Not many of you fancied yesterday's , but some of you defended its price as -...

May 2, 2026

For $5995, Heinz 51

Back in the ‘80s Porsche's pulled a Mr. Miyagi, and turned the Ralph Macchio 924 into the Karate Kid 944. Today's '87 S is race ready, but does its price make sensei? Phew, after Monday's , yesterday's pulling out (literally) a 74% Nice Price win seems especially sweet. Sure Torquemada...

May 2, 2026