Market Find: 2013 Audi exclusive Papaya Orange Q5 hyrbid

What: 2013 Audi Q5 hybrid
Color: Audi exclusive Papaya Orange (non-metallic UNI; LY2B; Audi)
VIN: WA1C8BFP2DA042301
Mileage: 247,000
Price at Time of this Writing: $2,000
CarFax: N/A
Window Sticker: N/A
Location: Hampstead, NC
Marketplace listing: Link

Why we love it:

Those memes about sending each other Facebook Marketplace listings of equal parts poor and awesome decisions at 1AM? That’s this Tailored Driver in a nut shell. Entering our radar over the weekend, this Audi exclusive Papaya Orange Q5 hybrid is the kind of thing fever dreams are made of- super rare color, weird options (tan interior and no sunroof?), and ‘needs work’ giving little context to why the price is so low. We’ve reached out to the seller, but apart from an also-ran feature on German Cars for Sale Blog back in the day, details on this Q5 hybrid are slim. Since it already seems to need a new motor, we hope whoever snags this drops in something wild, swaps out the tan interior for Black SQ5 bits, and swings for the fences.

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