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yeah, but the functioning headlights has to be worth, what, 500?
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Laugh all you want but its a little bizarre to me how these cars which were pretty impressive for the time have just fallen into a memory hole, especially compared to some others from the same general milieu.
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I just didn't find them impressive or interesting at the time. And I still don't. If I saw one on the street, I might think, "oh yeah. Huh," and that's about the extent of it.
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Went through head gaskets like Pringles though.
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I wanted a Probe GT bad when I was 16 (the second gen version with the V6. Not the heinous looking first gen). An acquaintance had one when I was in college and it was a genuinely nice car. The V6 sounded great, too.
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So, a) the second gen car was legitimately a lot nicer looking, but b) the '89s were far from heinous (though the 90 re-design was not great). The V6 engines were disappointingly gutless after the turbo four in the OG car, though.
That one went for $5100, which according to commenters is below market. Hell of a lot of car from a "huh, that's weird" standpoint. |
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Matter of opinion. I liked the first-gen MX-6 a lot better than the first-gen Probe, which looked like it was trying too hard with all the cladding. The three-spoke wheels were unforgivable
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I do sort of wonder if the effort to ditch the cladding and the 3 spokes after just one year was an attempt to make the car less like the Mustang it had originally been supposed to be. |
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