I didnt have this version, only a basic 4 door JLX hard top. It was very basic, manual shift, ladder frame, real transfer cases with 4L 4H options,  and I think the wondows were hand crankers. Great little motor, no issues in 135,000 miles.  Sort of regret selling it.  

See: Everything is important.

It’s why you pay Singer lol

Man these are all subjectively good cars (keyword subjective). I happen to like the 2002 Thunderbird because of that styling, if anything it made the SSR look like complete and unadulterated overkill.

How do they manage to make it so retro yet modern at the same time? Is it the bumpers, wheels. height? What am I missing? 

No KIA/Hyundais, as the engines will go kablooey.

The 124 has an FCA 1.4 turbo engine and the Miata NC transmission (apparently the ND tranny couldn’t handle the turbo). Other than that is is mechanically identical to the ND Miata.

It looks like, it uses one of Fiat’s “MultiAir” engines:

I don’t think an Alfa would ever be as reliable as a Civic or 3 and both of those are available in manual which is how I would spec them.  I had a 3 hatch and it was an awesome car.  Great MPG and very reliable.

they are not very reliable and potentially quite complicated to fix.

There is a lot of crime here in Hawaii that goes unreported (large conservative Asian culture that does not wish to bother others tends to promote this). Lots of things get stolen then shipped out by boat to Asia or the US mainland where in Asia there is sometimes higher demand for “US goods”. Here is an example of…

That’s what I thought at first too, then I remembered that boats are an awful handy way to ship contraband to places that don’t give a crap about our laws. It’s also extremely unlikely that there is a lot if any metal processing going on in Hawaii, especially the illegal stuff, so all the stolen cats are probably…

I would hope some sort of update/recycling program, but I’m not that optimistic, in as much as we don’t have a sustainable alternative to gasoline to be used in ICE engines.

This might be a hot take but as electric cars ramp up to mass adoption I think there is going to be a problem down the road. I think electric cars although great when new are going to be a big problem 20 or more years from now as they age out. Look at 20+ year old Altimas today, they are running because people dump…

It’s the answer... for death!

years ago, when my kids were younger and I was car shopping I found that convertibles of all sorts have dramatically lower fatality rates than a similar hard top vehicle. Like at the time, Mustangs were really bad about killing their drivers. But Mustang convertibles were about 10x safer.

Wait...does this mean that Miata is not always the answer?

I have two, this one back in the day made me want to get a Volvo:

I actually posted the Supra on the actual Jalopnik.com site yet @owen_bellwood choose someone who suggested it on Twitter and didnt even give me credit even with 24 recommendations. At least joint “suggested by:”. I like Jalopnik but if I am going to participate at least make it so voices are heard.

Agree with that. The active aero and exhaust of the 3000GT was a cool gimmick, but IIRC, almost no one had it because only one model year had all the gizmos, and they apparently decided to remove one feature a year until it was just a big ass car that had no advantage over its rivals.