The Opel GT was styled by an American and the bodies were built in France.
No, it's "Urraco".
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Not true. The Merak featured pretty much the entire SM driveline turned around for rear duty.
Of course, this is an old Italian exotic with all that implies, right?. Have this Merak checked out by an expert. If it gets a clean bill of health, then we have a Nice Price here, though not a bargain.
There wasn't much SM left in the Merak by the time this car was built.
By the time this guy finishes his rape dungeon, he's going to be too old to do much of anything even in the neighborhood of rape.
Way too much money, especially with a paint job that's going to be impossible to touch up or fix if the car gets pranged.
One big reason why the Contour failed was because at introduction it cost nearly $3,000 more than the Tempo it replaced. In Europe, the Contour was the upper-mid-range Ford car and was engineered and priced accordingly. In the US market, as the Tempo replacement it had to be much closer to a bottom-feeder in the lineup so Ford had to do some serious decontenting, and even then it still remained too expensive.
I made quite a few trips up to NYC in 1985-1986 when I was in northern NJ for enviro work. Generally I'd park my rental car at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd St. and used the buses or subways to get around.
Psshh. Not hard to top that. In the summer of 1976, my older brother and I drove nearly 13,000 miles throughout the US and Mexico in a rather tired 1965 Mustang convertible (200 six and three-on-floor stick) that I had bought for $400 two years before. We camped out almost all of the way so we removed the rear seat for extra space, bought a second spare tire, put in helper springs, and loaded it up with luggage, supplies, and camping gear including a 5-gallon carboy of potable water. In three months we drove from Titusville, Florida along the Gulf Coast to Texas, down deep into eastern coastal Mexico as far as Veracruz, meandered across to Puerto Vallarta, then up the west cost, re-entered the US in Arizona, bopped around California and the West for a while, headed back through the Midwest as far as Pittsburgh before finally heading south again. The car behaved like a champ, and my brother and I still talk about the grand adventure to this day. I sold the now-extremely-tired Mustang to a collector for $800 in 1978.
1990s Bentley Continental R. Why?
Sybaritic luxury.
Reasonably roomy inside.
Classic lines - not "gangsta" like later Bentleys.
Plenty of trunk room for her luggage.
Smooth and quiet.
Air conditioned (don't underestimate the importance of that).
Exotic yet comfortably so - it doesn't scream "penis extender" like a Ferrari or Lambo.
It implies that you can afford a really nice hotel to consummate the deal.
Nah, those gullwing cars were incredibly hot inside with poor insulation, fixed side windows, and no interior ventilation. Sweat isn't all that romantic. Get the droptop.
But I can buy a 2000 540i 6-speed in fine shape and with similar miles from a BMW dealer here in South Florida for basically the same price. One doesn't have to pay inflated forum prices. That's my point.
Sure, the seller might benefit, but NPOCP is about the buying, not the selling.
Crack Pipe - it appears to be a nice car but the price is a little too high. This is what you get for perusing the enthusiast forums. This sort of money would buy me a nice 1999-2001 540i 6-speed with similar mileage in my area.
A friend of mine lived in a small apartment complex right adjacent to the University of Florida campus in Gainesville. Though the parking slots were assigned to tenants with issued stickers, there were lots of problems with students parking in the lot during classes. My buddy would go out with a bar of soap and write No Parking on the windshields of offenders. Repeat offenders would have the entire windshield whited out with soap.
That's a hell of a nice car but the seller is asking a little too much for it. I won't call it Crack Pipe but it's no bargain. This car needs to be perfect to justify the asking price. There's a letter-series 300K coupe at Hemmings for just a few thousand more than this car.
I don't know where Graverobber gets his 5,270-pound weight figure from. Several sources on the web quote 4,100-4,300 pounds for the Quattroporte III.
Yeah, right. Check one out up close some time and get back to me. Or bone up on your auto history.
The Ferrari and Lambo are not out of context. We're talking true Italian thoroughbreds. Whether the Maser has four doors is immaterial.
