“Top Gear America” stays classy selling beaters in San Diego

Deep in filming the next season of "Top Gear America," the hosts took to the Interwebs today to hawk their given challenge: selling three oddball beaters under a clock, with a blitzkrieg ad strategy of live morning-show TV spots and Craigslist posting. Someone's going to have to work extra hard on that Merkur.

The vehicles involved are already up on San Diego Craigslist, listed as a 1992 Subaru SVX LS-L with 141,000 miles, a 1986 Merkur XR4Ti five-speed (RARE! says the ad, because that's a selling point on this thing) and a 1993 Cadillac Allante.

Judging from their Twitter feeds, Adam Ferrara's tasked with unloading the Allante, while Rutledge Wood has described his car as "foreign, under $5k, funky," which would match the Merkur to an umlat, leaving Tanner Foust to sell the rallying capabilities of the SVX, a car so unpopular in its time Subaru attempted to sell a version with front-wheel-drive only. It's a nice cross-section of cars that seem tempting as quirky, inexpensive beaters, and once you have the keys in your hands turn into high-efficiency cash disposal machines. Good luck, San Diego.