A Half-Priced Polestar 1, A Mid-Engine Toyota Van And A Basically New 22-Year-Old Dodge Viper In This Week's Car Buying Roundup

The idea of a high-powered hybrid-electric personal luxury grand touring coupe is strangely appealing to my sensibilities. The Polestar 1 served as both the capstone and the launching point for Volvo’s electric Polestar brand spinoff, and it was the absolute pinnacle of what the brand was capable of at the time. With a complex arrangement of electric motors and a tiny 2-liter four cylinder with both a supercharger and a turbocharger, Polestar pushed 619 horsepower and 738 pound feet of torque to the road from this delightfully appointed and sleek bodied machine. - Bradley Brownell Read More

Gas mileage is one of the most important factors people consider when choosing a new car, right up there with reliability and safety. Unfortunately for everyone who loves SUVs, though, big, heavy, boxy crossovers aren’t naturally all that fuel efficient. The good news is automakers have slowly been making their SUVs more efficient, and many are now available as hybrids. - Collin Woodard Read More

So your father has a tofu delivery service and tasks you with driving the tofu up a mountain without spilling any of the goods. Don’t worry, he already has a car, a trusty 300,000 mile Previa with a 5-speed manual transmission. Naturally, as one does, you fall into a mountain racing gang and you’re the best downhill driver the group has ever seen. Thank god your dad didn’t have something dumb and boring like a Corolla Sprinter Trueno. How would you fit even a reasonable amount of tofu in a tiny hatchback? - Bradley Brownell Read More

Auction sites like Bring a Trailer have become the go-to place for owners to list their unique, rare, and often low-mileage cars for sale. What better way to get rid of a cool car than to have it go to the highest bidder, with tons of enthusiast eyes on it? Not everyone seems to want to do that, as evidenced by the owner of a low-mileage Dodge Viper who’s listing their car in a place you wouldn’t expect: Craigslist. - Lawrence Hodge Read More

The current Honda Civic Type R is absolutely outstanding, but for drivers in the U.S. who hadn’t previously had the privilege of driving prior Civic Type Rs, its predecessor was a revelation. It drove better than any front-wheel-drive car had any right to, all while offering the daily practicality of a hatchback. But what if you wanted to throw that whole “daily practicality” thing out the window and double down on driving better than it has any right to? Well, a seller on Cars & Bids has just the Civic Type R for you. - Collin Woodard Read More

Automotive auction platform Bring A Trailer has surpassed one billion dollars in sales for three consecutive years, and 2024 marks the site’s biggest sales year ever with over $1.5 billion worth of units moved, and I was one of them. Not only has the average transaction price gone up on the site, but the site is seeing more listings than ever before. In calendar year 2024 the site saw nearly 45,000 listings hit the market, sometimes seeing as many as 1,000 new listings in a week. - Bradley Brownell Read More

Ian has been driving older, smaller, sporty cars for a while. Now that a kiddo will be joining the household, he wants something more family-friendly that can accommodate a car seat, luggage, and three dogs. With a budget of around $60,000, what car should he buy? - Tom McParland Read More