Engine overheating wasn't a problem. The tranny was its Achilles heel.

They're also peanuts from a structural integrity perspective.

The rear seat is swapped for a 48 gallon boot, which isn't very big. It has 17 horsepower, which isn't very fast. And it only goes like 50 miles.

Made by bees!

Dude, that's about as good as it gets. I hope you kept it in good shape.

Plus, if you maintain it properly, that H6 engine is rock-solid dependable.

Yes, quite.

For most of the 15 years that I had mine, the only maintenance it needed was oil change and fluids topped up.

Nah. Now it would still be all of those things. It's not like human comfort has changed in ten years.

The driving experience wasn't as bad as you imply. Sure it's not blazing fast, but it wasn't supposed to be. It was made to be a comfy, all-weather, highway cruiser, with just enough power to get on the freeway easily with good speed. It did all that just fine.

That one must have been cursed. They weren't all possessed by satan.

Yeah, I still miss mine. I drove it to death.

Honestly, I didn't expect the Miata to be fun until I drove it. I always just figured it was too weak to be more fast than cute, so I wrote it off as a chick car. Then my chick went and bought one, so I ended up driving it and enjoying every mile.

I have no problem with people choosing not to drive, and you're definitely pretty safe on mass transit, but there will be plenty of times when you will be riding in cars driven by other people. If you are concerned about crashing, wouldn't it stand to reason that knowing what it takes to be a defensive driver, you…

When they were expensive new technology with little support infrastructure and a lot of specialized manufacture involved and it was impossible to drive a car between cities because they didn't have the range that the existing transportation modes did. It was definitely a different era, but a similar dynamic. Anyway,…

That's just fine for the vast majority of driving done by the vast majority of drivers. I could live happily in an electric for day to day driving and then rent a gas powered car for the rare trips I take out of town.

Cars used to be just for rich folks.

Yeah, highly memorable and spectacular incident. Poor Mercedes doesn't have great luck with LM. After '55 they're out for decades then this when they come back. I wouldn't blame them if they stuck to DTM.

Right-o, no homologation here. Good catch.

That Ferrari ends up impressively un-crushed. Modern frame construction is pretty amazing.