This is Collector Car TL;DR: a weekly recap of what happened on Collector Car Feed, plus car auctions, listings, automotive news… Things of interest to someone who might watch Collector Car Feed. You know, you.
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The Videos

This past week in Collector Car Feed videos includes bargain performance cars and one to watch out for if you’ve ever dreamed of a nice car flip come up.

Converting my Toyota MR2 into a Ford RS200 part 1: bodywork
I may have been a bit of a Scotty Kilmer with this title: a little too clickbaity. But the topic does come up: someone turned a second gen MR2 into an RS200, much in the same way Justin Long was turned into a walrus in Tusk.

The Ford Focus ST is bottoming out in price. Under $6500 on Cars and Bids
This starts a two video Cars and Bids roundup; in this one we find some cheap Focus STs. Vukos explains that he’s “a Scotty Kilmer” because he now owns two key Scotty-approved vehicles. We also discover the horrors of Burt Toyota Englewood, a thankfully defunct dealership and automotive torture facility. If you’re going to watch one video this week, make it this one.

Find one of these rare Toyotas before the Cars & Bids resellers take them all
This is a continuation of the Focus video: more Cars and Bids browsing. The title focuses on my favorite car in the video: a Toyota Corolla XRS, in fact the first and only XRS ever sold on Cars and Bids. It sold for $13,000 (low miles, ~7000 total produced in two year production run). If you find one of these for sale near you, email me: collectorcarfeed@gmail.com

The News

A Subaru Baja Revival Might Happen. Could It Come Here to Fight the Maverick?
The easiest fight of Ford’s life is shaping up as an Aussie Subaru exec says “There have been discussions of a ute”. The Drive really made a meal out of that sentence.

They Mocked Minivans For Years, Now Americans Are Fueling A Massive Sales Surge
…is a weird way to say minivan sales are up 34% in Canada (and 20% in the United States). 110,006 Pacificas sold in the US, 101,486 Siennas. Are there other minivans? Don’t know.

World’s Ugliest Car Manufacturer CEO Says the Era of Manual Transmissions Is Nearly Over
Frank van Meel says BMW’s current transmission is limited to 440 pound-feet of torque, and there’s just no way transmission manufacturers could make something stronger, as the power of performance cars increases. An absurd statement to get you ready for the day (coming soon) when BMW finally pulls the plug on the stick shift.

The Cars

2005 Toyota Corolla XRS
Like I said, this sold for $13,000. Fantastic find. Low production numbers, two year run, six speed manual, the best four banger they were making at the time, It’s a Corolla, this really does have it all. Absolutely the auction of the week.

1991 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
A viewer sent this in to collectorcarfeed@gmail.com and it’s nice to see a rare DSM, but this one is in standard Facebook DSM condition: a picture of a 471 peak horsepower dyno sheet is included, but it “needs a tune”, has an oil leak “coming from somewhere”, is a salvage title (whatever)… But it’s OBO, so go lowball this guy and ruin your spring.

1980 Looney Tunes El Camino
Included for the faded hood artwork in which Taz looks like Blanca from Street fighter. There’s more on the sides. Not bad, worth a click.

Ongoing Auctions

1999 Toyota RAV4 Convertible
It’s the perfect first gen Rav4: two door, 4×4, stick. This one has 121,XXX miles. That’s low for the year but not low for the earth, and you can still find similar examples floating around. It’ll be interesting to see what this goes for.

2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STI
880 miles, blessed by Doug Himself, and the best facelift of this generation? No wonder it’s at $67,000 with three days to go. MSRP was ~$32,000. Will we see it tripled? Will we see six figures? Definitely one to watch.

Final Thoughts

I’m going to leave you with this edit of Netgear57 saying which cars he would and would not drive. “I’d drive it” is a philosophy we can and should all get behind. What does it mean to you?

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This is Collector Car TL;DR: a weekly recap of what happened on Collector Car Feed, plus car auctions, listings, automotive news… You get it.
And you can get it weekly by giving me your email address.

The Videos

This past week in Collector Car Feed videos features Facebook Marketplace listings hand-picked by our Discord users. Atlas, Feed, Puchii, and Vukos discuss and observe (Netgear returns this week).

He put gull wing doors on the Hummer 6×6 features a bluetooth third axle, gullwing, six-wheeled Hummer H2.

Tom’s Refurb Jeep for sale on Facebook Marketplace features a v8 swapped and slammed CJ Jeep that might have been owned by Tom’s Refurb (I think it’s a tribute, but you be the judge)

Sold the Donk Monte Carlo SS on Facebook Marketplace but kept the rims had one of the best listing videos we’ve ever seen. If you only watch one, watch the Monte Carlo video.

The News

StopTech, Raybestos, and Centric have ceased operations, effective immediately.
Their parent company (First Brands Group) filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. These are recognizable names, but so is Shaq, and he sold basketball shoes at Walmart. Just a thought.

Jony Ive says cars should have physical buttons.
He’s not wrong, although, man, I had to drive a new Toyota for a little while recently and they really need to relax with the buttons switches and on-screen data. Driving a modern Toyota is like driving a physical manifestation of Yahoo! Auctions Japan.
But hooray for physical button advocacy.

Despite anti-Musk protests, Californians cannot stop buying the Tesla Model Y in droves (nothing ever happens).
Tesla sold almost twice as many Model Ys in California in 2025 as the runner up, the Rav4 EV.

The Cars

2003 Toyota Celica GT-S
Humina humina. New Mexico has the best license plates in the game. This one is incredible and thechili pepper one is arguably even better. But the car, man that’s nice. A hair under 100K miles is a rare find. Blue is the best color these came in, and sets off the GT-S badge perfectly.

But, as always. buyer beware. Keep in mind this is just speculation: the front grille is painted blue, indicating, to me, a respray has occurred. Not the end of the world, but not original.
And $13,000 is an astronomical price. The seller is dreaming on that one; maybe if it’s immaculate.

2005 Honda Civic Si
Puchii found this one. It’s a “single-family-owned” (read: multiple owners on paper) 2005 Honda Civic Si EP3. Most if not all of the CCF crew has a soft spot for this car, and I’m pretty sure none of us have ever actually owned one. It sold on Valentine’s Day for $9,200. I think that’s a pretty great deal right at 100,000 miles.

This generation of Civic Si, the EP3, is notably unloved. But 160 horsepower is identical to the EM1 that preceded it. This time it’s a K instead of a B, and McPherson instead of double wishbone. But you gain a weird shifter that sticks straight out of the dashboard at you, so that’s fun.

I do feel like $9,200 could buy you a fairly nice 8th gen (that is, the following generation). And the 8th gen has serious perks: 197 horsepower is a big bump, and the 8th gen Si came standard with a limited slip differential. But it wasn’t on sale on Bring A Trailer this past week, so who cares.

Ongoing auctions:

2006 Mazdaspeed6 Grand Touring
The Mazdaspeed6 is too sick. It’s like an Evo or STi, but from a respectable brand for a lot less money. The red is absolute fire. Mileage isn’t “low”, just “low for the year”. Nice car though.

1993 Dodge Grand Caravan SE
This would be a great find on Facebook, but it’s on Cars and Bids, so you can bet it’s going to go way too high, and for good reason: ~67K on the clock of a minivan from 1993 is actual “low mileage”. Single owner, clean, nostalgic.

1997 BMW M3 Coupe
A perfect E36 M3 with under 100,000 miles. This is going to go for a small fortune.

Final Thoughts

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