What $2,000 will buy you

An online friend of mine and fellow kit car enthusiast just picked up this awesome Mantis Ageon for only $2,000… Given that these cars are simple to maintain, get 40+mpg, and are surprisingly peppy, I just don’t get why more people don’t buy them. I would have killed for this car in highschool, and a summer job could easily buy it. Click for more pictures.

4 Comments

  1. As Schmitty wrote, he put a lot of work into the car. I think the biggest deterrent to getting a car like this is ignorance. How safe is this car? Is it street legal in the US? How much are parts and how easy are they to come by? I know what I’m getting with my VW Golf and if something’s wrong that I can’t fix, I know a mechanic who can. That Mantis Ageon is as foreign to me as a space ship.

    Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 1:21 pm | Permalink
  2. Kyle wrote:

    I think im, with you on this. lol 2000 Isnt that bad at friggin all that would have been an amazing ride compaired to my mohers Rav 4 i drove. lmfao

    Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 10:19 pm | Permalink
  3. Skip3s wrote:

    It looks a bit like a duck to me…

    Friday, December 5, 2008 at 9:21 am | Permalink
  4. Joanne wrote:

    It looks good but it also looks like it’s just fibreglass – surely you would be totally screwed in the event of a crash?

    Friday, December 5, 2008 at 3:49 pm | Permalink
Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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