Subaru 360, Kawasaki GPZ750 Turbo, Alfa Romeo Spider: The Dopest Cars I Found for Sale Online

Yes, okay, I said “cars to make people take notice and get out of your way” and now I’m telling you about a Subaru Outback. I understand your bewilderment here, seeing as the Outback has long fulfilled the automotive niche of being An Car, anonymous and unseen. But this Outback is special.

This is an Outback XT, meaning it shares its EJ25 engine with the WRX. It also has the five-speed stick from that car, making it a fantastic sleeper wagon. I owned the Legacy version of this car, and I absolutely loved it—they’re fantastic, even if this one has a turbo that’s starting to go. Check those banjo bolts if you buy it.

For some reason, southwestern Connecticut is rapidly filling up with classic Land Cruisers imported from South America. There’s no word on whether this particular one is an import, or whether it was originally sold in the States, but it’s yet another classic Yota ‘froader in Fairfield County. This is a good trend, and one that should continue.

But those Cruisers shouldn’t be reserved for the Greenwich aristocrats. This one is a perfect model to bring home to your (presumably less stone-facade-and-column-bedecked) garage. It seems solid, aside from a few little issues that turn it into a fun project, and it’s just such a good shade of red. Buy this truck.

Or, if you’re on the other coast, you could buy this one. This Type 2 is just begging to have a couple surfboards strapped to the roof and an equal number of mountain bikes thrown in the bed, for a day of California Things In California. I assume no one out there works, and simply spends their days being beautiful and doing fun outdoor activities. I want to be one of them.

The seller of this VW seems a bit picky (no emails, no trades of lower value supplemented with cash, no bikes or boats) but that’s often a nice quality in a car owner. If they’re equally persnickety with parts and maintenance, you’ll be buying a car that’ll last you forever.

And, on the other end of the persnickety spectrum, we have Staten Island’s Rustiest Camaro. The seller claims the car’s been mechanically fixed, but they don’t have time to address the paint and body issues. I, for one, say that you should buy this car and leave it exactly as it is.

Fix any rot, obviously, and don’t let the rust get any worse. But this is the kind of mismatched panel patina that money can’t buy. This Camaro is old enough to qualify for AARP, let it wear the scars of its age with pride.

This seller claims to have “the most restored Subaru 360 in the world,” and I believe it. It looks immaculate inside and out, likely thanks to the new production parts that this seller worked with suppliers in Japan to manufacture — singlehandedly trying to revive the parts market for Subaru’s first American entry.

Is this car worth the $150,000 the seller claims to have spent on it? Absolutely not. Is it worth the $46,000 the seller wants for it? That’s up to you. Are you a collector, looking for the perfect 360 to round out your Subie collection? If so, it may just be.

Technically this ad is for two bikes, both TW200s, but I’m only going to focus on the one pictured here. I have no idea who would turn a slow, plodding farm bike into this kind of retro supermoto, but I respect the hell out of them for going it. This bike looks rad, and it’s probably a blast to ride.

The other bike in the ad is a parts bike, so this TW is likely not in pristine mechanical shape—people don’t normally buy spares for their fully-working machines. But for this kind of design, this riding experience, it may be worth it.

More cars should be yellow. Every Evo I see around is white, black, gray, red, or blue. Yellows are few and far between, but we should all take inspiration from this Evo VII—yellow is just better.

Beneath the paint, this Lancer has a series of restrained mods. A bluetooth radio, and upgraded clutch (one I’ve run on multiple cars, and happen to love), and a giant turbo with piping and boost control to match. Look, it’s an Evo, “restrained” means the turbo doesn’t spit flames out the hood.

The Fiat 500 Abarth is a budget car, but not usually this budget. If $2,000 sounds suspiciously cheap for this angry little jelly bean, you might be unsurprised to learn that the engine is blown. Zero compression in cylinder 3, the block needs to go.

But this, my friend, is an opportunity. As far as I can tell, no one’s successfully K-swapped a Fiat 500. You could be the first, reaping the clout and YouTube viewership that comes with such a build. Call it the modern EK and watch the fans come running — to call you horrid things, sure, but they’re running nonetheless.

Let’s run through a checklist of Extremely Cool Things: Motorcycles. Tri-spoke wheels. 1980s aesthetics. Forced induction. What if you could have all of those things together, and get them for under $14,000?

Well, you can, because this turbocharged tri-spoked eighties bike is up for grabs. You don’t come across GPZ750 Turbos often, and you’ll see them in worse shape than this more often than not. Don’t deck this bike out with a modern aftermarket boost controller — let it run wild, as Kawasaki engineers intended.

This S2000, like so many, has almost cetainly been hit. Three body panels are missing their VIN tags, and they’re too close together to be a coincidence—front bumper, driver front fender, and driver door. That impact drives down the price, while the S2k’s other trick makes it a value: Forced induction.

This S2000 is supercharged, with the seller claiming 420 horsepower to the wheels (blaze it). Choosing a supercharger over a turbo means that the car’s high-end-focused power band is likely preserved — just enhanced with additional power. Ignore the rebuilt title, focus on the supercharger.

Andy isn’t here this week, so I can talk about kei cars to my heart’s content. I considered an all-kei-car edition of Dopest, in fact, but figured doing another specialty week after last week’s green extravaganza was too much too quickly. It may still happen.

Until then, you’ll have to make do with this Sambar. But as consolation prizes go, this is a great one — supercharged, four-wheel-drive, and manual. It even has a slightly more modern radio, one that might be able to pick up American broadcast frequencies. I know you all spend a lot of time listening to terrestrial radio, still.

A few months ago, I left a Super Bowl party early to go watch JoJo’s Bizzarre Adventure with some friends. It was the beginning of the Stone Ocean season, which starts with an Alfa just like this getting into a car crash. I definitely didn’t make the rest of the room pause the show, just so I could talk about how weird a choice an Alfa Romeo was for a season taking place in Florida.

Yet, here we have that very Alfa, and it too is located in Florida. Check the glovebox for any Stand-granting arrows that may be contained within. Tell me your stand’s classic rock inspired name and functionality in the comments.

Six cylinders underneath the hood, three speeds on the column. This is the ideal format for a classic American wagon. You don’t need the V8, you’ll get (marginally) better fuel economy with the six, and you’re not going to get neck-sapping performance anyway.

Outside of the powertrain, this Falcon is just aesthetically gorgeous. Look at those thin pillars, all that glass. You just don’t see that any more. It’s gorgeous, and gorgeous enough that you should own it.

This Suzuki Jimny arrived in the U.S. with a broken engine, which would normally be a terrible thing to buy. This one, however, appears to have been purchased by an enthusiast and that engine failure was just an excuse to upgrade.

Stick-shift conversion, upgraded engine, new cams and valves. This might be the ideal spec for a Jimny, the kind of just-above-stock power level that’s often fun, yet still reliable. What more could you want?

Retro-modern bikes are on their way out, supplanted by adventure bikes, which means that the deals are here. The XSR700 shares its powerplant with the R7, but wraps those mechanics up in a much prettier package—one that only gets better with a few tasteful mods.

This bike, for under seven grand, has those mods. Brown grips, bar-end mirrors, an aftermarket exhaust — everything to get the attention of those NYU graduates, and get them to move the hell out of your way.