It’s not hard to look better than the Enzo.  Just about everything looks better than an Enzo, excepting cars with visible-bolt fenders.

The RX-8 has a variable redline that isn’t up to the full 9,000 until the engine’s fully up to temperature.

I don’t know about how it averages out, but I’ve never bought a daily driver because I wanted to: I bought one because my old one died (either a catastrophic mechanical failure or an accident). Most people I know are the same way.

For 50% more than the automatic ones, if you can find one at all.

A quick Google search tells me that aside from California, Hawaii, and NYC, only six cities have an average home price over 300k (Seattle, Boston, DC, Denver, Portland, and Reno). I’d hardly call that most cities, and clearly not all.

Define ‘Major Metro Area’. Do you mean NYC, LA, SF, Seattle, and DC? Or the rest of the country?

Despite how much I dislike them, I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if they gained value along with the SSR and Prowler and anything else that was built with that ugly pseudo-retro look in the 90s. They’re unique (if nothing else), and nobody took car of any of them.

I did my own alignments on my (79) RX-7 since I was replacing the worn out suspension off and on over a couple months. It’s really not that hard, you just need four jackstands, two pipes, some string, and an accurate ruler, look it up.

Same way here. I’m looking to buy a second car, and there really aren’t a lot of fun and affordable choices from the last 10-15 years.

Almost undoubtedly the most unique car in this price range that won’t be a nightmare to maintain. There were only about a dozen of these in the U.S. last time I heard. The stock engines are nonexistent but the 12A drops right in, and this one already has the later but still reasonably reliable 13B that second-gen…

I guess I just don’t see the point. If you like doing stuff in the area, you aren’t spending much time at home to begin with, if you don’t go out much, why does it matter where you live? I just don’t really see any time it matters where you live. (aside from like, working on an island)

How far away would you have to move to see normally-priced houses?  I don’t know about you, but I’d take an hour or two commute to save $700k any day.

Unless you don’t live near NY or CA. A very nice house in the majority of the country is between 100k and 300k.

130k and he’s still saving for a house on top of it?

Many older sportscars are much more softly sprung than even your typical family car today. The biggest pain of living with one is that carbs need a lot of time to warm up and older cars rust, badly.

I’m just going to suggest you avoid doing a full restoration yourself unless you absolutely have to. It can become a much bigger project very easily.

Completely depends where you live though. AC is absolutely unnecessary in some places, just as heat is in other places. I just wish we had the option to option them out if we knew we didn’t need them.  (And no Porsche, I don’t want to pay extra for you to remove something).

Depends on the car. Many will stall if you try to let it idle in first, not enough torque to push the car forward at idle RPM.

Not necessarily. If you never use the infotainment screen while moving, having it hidden is a big bonus over having it sitting right in your field of vision all the time.

Same. I bought an 86 instead of a BRZ almost entirely because the BRZ had push button start and the 86 uses a key.