At $9,450, Would You Be Proud To Own This 1987 Toyota Cressida?

The seller of today's Nice Price aliases No Dice Toyota claims it offers "Pride of Ownership." Whatever that really means, it's sewage to beryllium amended than shame of ownership aliases buyer's remorse. Let's determine if this classical Cressida is priced pinch dignity.

Commitment is simply a positive erstwhile describing an character performing a challenging domiciled aliases a beloved loved 1 consenting to put up pinch your baloney. Oh, and that's not an indictment of you; I person a batch of baloney myself. Commitment tin beryllium seen arsenic a pejorative erstwhile nan taxable is mobile telephone contracts aliases erstwhile nan judge tells you you request to spell distant for a while aft you've been caught moving naked successful nan streets. Yeah, don't ask.

Mercedes made a awesome committedness to nan R107 statement of roadsters, designing nan cars successful nan precocious 1960s and keeping them successful accumulation pinch only insignificant updates and ever-larger engines for astir 2 decades. The 1987 Mercedes-Benz 560 SL we looked astatine yesterday arrived adjacent nan extremity of that tally but still retained each nan charm and, could we say, committedness to nan taxable of nan first editions. At $9,900, a number of you were eager to perpetrate to nan car's value, a truth reflected successful nan 53% "Nice Price" triumph nan Benz enjoyed.

Now, I didn't scheme connected america having a tally of 1980s cars this week, but it seems that Kismet, aliases possibly it was Jenga, whatever, has brought america to this consequence today. The truth is, a batch of awesome cars came retired of nan 1980s; a renaissance play pursuing nan automotive industry's acheronian ages of nan 1970s.

Today's 1987 Toyota Cressida is 1 of those awesome '80s cars that, sadly, we don't spot astir each that overmuch anymore. With conscionable 112,000 miles connected nan timepiece and an wide cleanable appearance, this 1 stands retired arsenic a subsister and carries pinch it each nan '80s goodness of a Bartles & Jaymes-fueled VH-1 flashback weekend.

No company, not moreover Toyota, builds a car for illustration this anymore, what pinch its chrome-framed greenhouse, glorious reddish velour-draped interior, aliases simple, cleanable angular styling. The closest point successful Toyota's existent lineup successful position of size and marketplace position is nan Crown, but it's a beautiful weird car, and fewer group really bargain them.

Speaking of Crown, that's nan exemplary that nan Cressida primitively supplanted. Toyota loves to sanction its cars aft royal headgear, having astatine times offered nan Corolla, Corona, and yes, for those pinch small imagination aliases flair, nan Crown. Originally aligning pinch this strategy, nan Cressida's ancestors were marketed successful nan U.S. nether nan Corona Mark II label. That nameplate was discontinued successful nan precocious 1970s successful favour of Cressida, a sanction yanked from nan Shakespeare play, Troilus and Cressida, group during nan Trojan War. That sanction would transportation nan exemplary done nan 1990s. By that time, a luxury Toyota seemed superfluous successful ray of nan precocious introduced Lexus statement of cars.

This isn't nan past loop of nan Cressida, but it is, perhaps, 1 of nan astir iconic. It features boxy, elegant styling and a Jaguar-esque DOHC consecutive six nether nan hood. Transmission choices were constricted to a four-speed automatic (a manual was concisely offered), and nan suspension is independent each around.

That six-cylinder is Toyota's vaunted 5M-GE, a 2.8-liter portion making 156 horsepower and 165 pound-feet of torque. For bragging rights, this motor is related to nan 7M-GE utilized successful U.S. and other-market Supras. According to nan ad, everything connected this Cressida useful arsenic it should. The motor stays cool pinch a replacement radiator and h2o pump. A caller lipid alteration and nan installation of caller tires connected nan mill alloy wheels are further pluses. The A/C, which is old-school R-12, is reported to beryllium moving fine. This is an '80s Toyota, truthful thing little would beryllium wholly extracurricular nan expected narrative.

Aesthetically, there's thing to kick astir connected this car. Yes, location does look to beryllium immoderate discoloration connected nan backmost bumper, but that's reasonably minor. The interior features nan aforementioned velour upholstery connected nan seats. If immoderate title is to beryllium leveled astatine nan interior, it's astir nan mechanical rodent enarthrosis belts that nan car is saddled with. That's par for nan people successful this era of cars, arsenic U.S. passive restraint laws had gone into effect, but manufacturers were still down nan curve successful fitting beforehand spot airbags connected galore of their cars. Oddly, Toyota fitted nan Cressida pinch nan annoying rodent belts years earlier they became mandated by nan law. That's 1 throwback we needn't revisit. This Cressida comes pinch a cleanable title, a purported accident-free history, and nan seller's committedness that it will connection its adjacent steward pridefulness of ownership.

There are only 2 things opinionated successful nan measurement of that pride: nan car's wide desirability and its $9,450 asking price. Come to deliberation of it, those are people related (one drives nan other), and truthful it whitethorn beryllium conscionable 1 thing. See? I'm making your occupation overmuch easier today.

That job—should you take to judge it—is to find if this Cressida is really desirable capable to bid that $9,450 asking. What is your return connected this clean, classic, and prestigious Cressida astatine that benignant of cash? Does that ding nan ol' deal-o-meter? Or is this conscionable a frumpy aged Toyota that needn't person been saved and hence is measurement overpriced?

You decide!

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