Help Me Choose My Next Car!

Hello, humans of CarThrottle!

As many of you know, I’ve spent the last few months writing about – and making mediocre YouTube videos with – my Hummer and my Nissan Skyline GT-R. Now that I’ve sold them, it’s time for you to help me choose a new car to write about next year.

Doug DeMuro

09 Dec 2015

Hello, humans of CarThrottle!

You can check out my criteria over on my Jalopnik column or in my YouTube video above, but I’m going to list the rules here, too. I’ll be paying attention to suggestions from CarThrottle users, and they’ll be going on my master list of car ideas that I’ll choose from.

Budget. The car shouldn’t cost more than $60,000, or maybe $65,000 for the perfect car.
Interest. I cannot stress this point enough: This car has to be something that you’re interested in hearing about for a while. The Hummer seemed to captivate everyone’s interest, week in and week out, for almost a year. On the other hand, some people complained a little about the Skyline. So before you send in your suggestion, ask yourself: Is this something I want to hear about for a year?
Cost. Although I’ve already covered the budget, cost is almost more important: the car cannot lose an insane amount of value over the next year. What I mean by this is, I cannot buy the car today for $50,000 and sell it in a year for $19,500 – that’s too expensive. Sadly, this rule eliminates virtually all new cars.

With these rules in mind, start suggesting some cars here on CarThrottle, on Twitter, or just about anywhere else you can find me! What do you want to hear about for the next year??

Comments

RX7

A European wagon… you go from there.

Try a Delorean. About $25,000-$30,000 and the rest can be spent on tuning. Also, the price will increase later in time due to a small amount of models made, so supply and demand, bro!

Dodge hellcat challenger/charger or a viper

A 60s American station wagon with a big block

I would suggest a few options.

1) A bmw 1M, those are rare and very sought after and also unique and they also don’t depreciate much as they were special edition. There are at least 2 for sale on the east coast, both under 60k and both under 15k miles as well.

2) A dodge viper of any generation. with them going out of production and the fact that they were always in the corvette’s shadow, this makes them more rarified and special.

3) Lotus Esprit V8. Very cool car and very rare in america but there’s one for sale on washington dc craigslist for 47k

4) E30 BMW. Now before you say this is a boring choice, he could for 60k total, put an s65 m3 v8 or the v10 from the e60 m5 into it and do every other part of the car up to modern standards. that would be a really cool car to see!

5) Lastly, he could get a 70’s porsche 911 as an interesting example. the 930 turbo’s are a bit too expensive but he could get a really good standard 911 for that money!

I was able to find an example of all of these cars(except for the e30 as that’s custom) for sale on the east coast with at least one example per car. these aren’t the fastest nor the rarest cars, but would be very interesting to watch over a year of ownership!