So, a Boxster with a less practical roof and a better engine?

The problem with this is largely the same problem track days in the U.S. face, the legal system does not allow for a waiver that says ‘whatever happens is my fault and I cannot sue you or anyone else involved’.

Isn’t that kind of the point?  Minivans are superior to crossovers/SUVs in just about every way from a utility/value perspective.

There are no choices that offer a manual other than BMW. Chances that Mazda offers one are low, but not zero. I have to think they’d do ok in a segment with zero competition (reliable RWD manual sedan).

You have a valid point and people jumped all over you for it.

Not sure about every state, but in many all it takes to go from ‘salvage’ to ‘rebuilt’ is a very basic inspection making sure the VINs still line up with the frame.  You can register a rebuilt title car just about everywhere, though it’ll be a lot harder to insure.

Hundreds of perfectly good RX-7s have been destroyed for an arguably inferior V8 swap (and they only sold a few thousand of those). We could do to lose a few Corvettes.

Just give it a few years.  It’ll hit 90% depreciation eventually.

You’re throwing away between several hundred and several thousand dollars for that insurance that in all likelyhood, you’ll never use. And in the off chance you do use it, the money you did put into car payments is thrown out as well.

While the C2 is iconic, I’ve never thought it looked particularly good. Some of the best ‘big box on wheels’ muscle car styling, but that’s kind of a weak segment to begin with. The C3 was a huge improvement.

If you only trust the numbers, it’s apparently most cost-effective to daily drive a ‘79 RX-7.

How often can you use full throttle in a 500HP car on the street?

It’s like a parking sticker.  Yeah, I wouldn’t notice if it was in the upper right corner of the windshield, but I’d still know it was there and it would bug me every time I looked at it.

The DMV and title offices are closed too, so even if I could get it home, I can’t get the title transferred or get it registered.

Not entirely. I was planning on buying a Boxster this summer. Now I can’t, because there are zero that fit my critera within 300 miles of me and I can’t fly and drive it home.

All of those things can be put in a box that you can hide out of sight and run a wire to, there’s no reason for them to be dangling from the windshield.

I’ve thought about buying a dashcam, but they’re all still relatively large bricks that hang off your windshield.

You can transfer your registration to another car in Ohio. Basically, the plates are registered to you, not to your car.

Sometimes that’s not an option.

Most if not all of the problems are easily preventable, unlike a BMW, and also unlike a BMW, don’t cost more than the car to fix.