Darn it all... there you go busting my bubble...

Even then, the ILX was a case of limited features if you wanted a 6 speed. Navi? Nope. Limited slip diff that’s standard in the Si? Sorry, not happening. Cost? Way up relative to the Si, though.

That Acura sounds good to me

For a time, I was living in central Massachusetts while my girlfriend was going to school in Plattsburgh, NY. That meant that travelling between the places meant taking a ferry across Lake Champlain, or driving an extra hour or two around it.

I went on a camping trip in 1999.

Seems to me they aren’t all that absorbent...

Will they EVER graduate to at least HID headlights, if not LED?

Who cares?!?

I am struggling to determine how this guy hasn’t noticed that a cat has snuck up under his hood and is screetching when he gets on the throttle.

Is a comment on a comment eligible for COTD?

‘Murica... Miata... V8... burnout?

TL;DR: Some of my own supercar experience, leading up to calling these speeds entirely reasonable... well, maybe not reasonable, but understandable.

Witness the escape of the Gray Spotted Subwoofer.

Freedom!

Amen.

My own experience:

Truly, this is astounding.

My wife had a 2006 (I think) Mercedes C280.

Here’s a quick “opposite” story, Kristen.

In roughly 1997, I was at my girlfriend’s (now wife of 18 years) school, in Plattsburgh, NY, over Halloween weekend.