This is how a friend of mine sold her couch:
As a former owner of a ‘99 Corolla I can confirm this was an accurate listing. The only thing that managed to kill mine was rust.
Same, I miss my 03 Camry. That thing was a beast. Took hard hits from some wildlife, got backed into, had branches fall on it, and still made it to 300K km and never once broke down. It was so rusty my mechanic told me to get rid of it before it broke in half. When I donated it to the kidney foundation, it drove up into the tow truck under its own power.
Sadly, Toyota doesn’t have the sauce anymore. We looked at new Corollas and they felt way creakier than the “golden age” ones. Plus their CEO is a maga chud now :(
Any other “beast” car that you could recommend? I might need another car soon.
My friend that did the marketing for a gaming company decided to help get people to come to my garage sale by making a craigslist post like this. It was hilarious and bonkers and lots of people did in fact show up. Most of them probably ended up disappointed by the lack of crazy or amazing things.
I love the Toyota Corolla’s albums on Spotify.
I remember that one ad about a guy forced to sell his car by his wife. But he wrote all the bad things about it and reasons why people shouldn’t buy it.
Of course it was a WRX hahaha so perfect.
It really couldn’t be a better car for this
I had a 1991 carola hatchback with push button all wheel drive. That thing was indestructible. Used to live out of it in the summer, out in the woods with 2 dogs. It went places that most of my friends with trucks wouldn’t try.
I miss those days.
The places that a standard passenger car will take you with a little faith and not caring if it needs to be abandoned. I’ve been in a Subaru legacy farther out than most 4wd adventures I’ve been on
Honda Element (okay maybe not quite “standard passenger car”) played that role for me. All wheel drive, short turn radius, reasonable height, bulletproof Honda engineering (except goddamn AC compressors, fuck!).
Thing would just cruise right through stuff that’d get pickups stuck, ones theoretically more suited to the task. Gave it to a family member around 280k miles, it got neglected then stolen and parted out, sad :(
I really wish Honda would bring it back. It would be perfect for full electric.
I still miss my 98 Toyota Avalon. My dad bought it used, then my brother used it to go out of state for college, then I got it. And I did some shit to it. By the time I sold it (regrettable), it had 300,000 miles on it. And my friend I sold it to went on to sell it again. I bet that thing is still chugging away somewhere for someone. I just wish it was me.
Anyone that likes cheeky reviews of boring cars like this should check out Regular Car Reviews on YouTube.
I had a Corolla. A mid ‘80s model. Lasted me for years until the radiator went.
Took it to my local mechanic who said: “That fucker’s fucking fucked!”
In the face of deep technical knowledge (and the fact that the work would have cost more than the harness worth at that point), I reluctantly let it go to scrap.
How sad, radiators are super easy to replace
Now you tell me! Where were you back then?
I mean if the mechanic said it like that the radiator might have gone hard enough to cause severe overheat problems. Blown head gasket, cracked cylinder, something like that maybe.
That’s more of an effort on creative writing than a car ad. But, brother, the story was cool.
I’m driving a 2002 Skoda Fabia. I don’t care, when it starts to make some new noise, I just crank up the radio and drive on. New smells, however, are a different thing.
Funniest damn thing I’ve seen in weeks
2001 Ford Focus Combi - if you ask “is that smell from us” and the answer is “no”, you are good to go.
That’s the only car I’d trust to get me to Arby’s
Thanks stranger for the laughs
