Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 30,000-Mile 1957 Triumph TR3 For 45 Grand?

How much is too much for a car? When is the price nice, and when is it time to take your sorry self to Booth Numbah Two for the crack pipe? The came close to getting a Nice Price rating from the voters, but fell short by 5%. Today we'll...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 VW Jetta TDI Reviewed By Budding 13-Year-Old Fan-Boy

Mr. Wes, My name is Andrew and I am a 13 year old Boy Scout whose parents have just purchased a . I love this car so much it really forces you into the seat because it accelerates fast which is really cool. Just because my mom just bought I...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Armored Mercedes-Benz S500 For $76,000?

75% of readers think that $45,000 is just too much for , no matter how original it might be. But how about a crime-boss-grade bulletproof Benz for 76 grand? How much is too much for a car? When is the price nice, and when is it time to take your...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 50th Anniversary Nissan 300ZX Turbos On (30 Grand) Parade!

Times are good for Z-car fans looking for a low-mileage 50th Anniversary 300ZX Turbo, because two different sellers are vying for your money… nearly $30,000 of your money! It turns out that 65% of you believe that , but it's really hard to find any basis for comparison for such...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5000 Skoda Octavia Wagon?

What's a reasonable price for a cool old car? Our readers are cold-eyed realists, or maybe you're all just plain cheapskates, and the last Nice Price vehicle was . Today we're going to consider a car that's been generating tips for about a year now; the seller just won't give...

Nov 16, 2024

Lotus Exige S 240: First Drive

Driving a Lotus Exige S 240 for the first time is, surprisingly, an exercise in déjà vu. Why? Because it's the exact same car you've driven in daydreams since you were seven years old. Since people with money buy fast cars, we've partnered with to bring you this review. And...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $42,500 For A Supercharged Ford V8-Powered Maserati Quattroporte?

Would you prefer a pure Italian Quattroporte with 288 honest Maserati horsepower… or one with a blown Ford 5.4 modular V8 grunting out 626 Detroit horses? And what would you pay? Yes, that's two separate questions, and we're only interested in the latter one here; we're assuming that all but...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 11 Grand For A 1988 Toyota Celica Turbo All-Trac?

Surprisingly, only 35% of voters thought that the was nicely priced at $42,500. Today we're going to return to all-original, unmolested iron, with a highly desirable Reagan Era machine. Most Celica Turbo All-Tracs got hooned to death years ago, and the remaining survivors are mostly pretty beat. Not this one,...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $105,000 Mercedes-Benz 600

Only 2,677 were built. I've a single time, and that was a beater. The very pinnacle of Mercedes-Benz overkill: the . What would you pay for one? We had our first Nice Price vote in quite a while yesterday, with the just barely squeaking by with 51% of the vote....

Nov 16, 2024

2010 Honda Insight: First Drive

The looks like a cynical attempt to copy the Toyota Prius. It's not. Actually, the Insight is a very cynical and clever attempt to give Americans exactly what they want. Remember the South Park episode "Smug?" All the uppity environmentalists drove around in whooshy little cars that looked like generic...

Nov 16, 2024

Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid: Quick Drive

We took to the Detroit Auto Show basement to drive the 120 MPG . Our impressions below. In order to drive the Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid we had to take a breathalyzer test administered by a security guard and sign a waiver promising not to sue anyone if the car...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 966-Kilometer 2001 Mexican Beetle For $10,900?

How much is too much? How much is way too much? Does that car have a Nice Price, or is it time to take your sorry self to Booth Number Two for the Crack Pipe? We had another Nice Price winner last time, with an overwhelming 75% of you believing...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $145,000, 678-Mile Buick GNX?

When a car sits in the , and it has a 3-digit odometer reading at age 22… well, you figure the price might be pretty steep. But this steep? We were a little startled to find that felt the low-mile 2001 Mexi-Beetle was overpriced at $10,900, but perhaps our readers...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $50,000 For A 30,000-Mile 1994 Porsche 928 GTS?

Once again, our fickle Nice Price Or Crack Pipe voters have given the thumbs-down to the price tag on . What does it take to get a Nice Price from you? How about this , from the second-to-last year of the 928's production run? It's got a 32-valve, 345-horsepower V8,...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $3,500,000 Maybach SW38 Roadster?

You're a hard-to-please bunch, with only 17% of you opining that the was nicely priced. Today we're going with a much, much cooler vintage German machine… at 70 times the price! Yes, folks, this is the most expensive vehicle for sale in the Hemmings Motor News classifieds (speaking of which,...

Nov 16, 2024