I used quotes to beg meaning for a reason. And you went a lot further than that. Basically identical, you said. Thirty-five years, you said. Three-hundred-fifty horsepower, you said. STUNNED by 330hp in anything short of a Ferrari in MY1997, you said.

A childhood back seat road trip silly-fit, when any random incongruous thing is the funniest thing you’ve ever heard or said.

They’re similar in the sense that all cars from an era are similar, and not really more than that. The Probe and Mazda were not twins; they did not share sheet metal or greenhouse. The pair are a great example of platform-sharing without the stink of badge engineering.

Most cars from every automotive era ever are “pretty similar.”

I did not claim objectivity. Add English to the list of things you don’t know very well.

Pretty similar? In the same way that all white people look alike, sure. “The same basic design philosophy?” You are profoundly ignorant of automotive styling, and I am certain if anyone is still reading your baldfaced venting they’ll give your opinion all the consideration it deserves.

Unless you’ve got some kind of bizarre fixation for uncomfortable unsupportive seats, fake wood being better than, well, anything, worse ergonomics, harder to read gauges, and skinny steering wheels, there’s no way you can objectively state that interiors in the 60's were better than interiors in the 90's.

Are you fucking kidding me? The 1991 Mercedes 560SEL stickered for $75K.

So how long have you been legally blind?

Back then the Corvette Z51 was in the same ballpark as the V8 Ferrari and the Porsche Turbo. Those cars have since leveled up and left it behind.

That someone can get fucked until they amend the Constitution.

The FD RX-7 came to the US for MY1993.

They don’t share the same styling. All cars from the 90s do not look the same, any more than all cars from the 30s look the same. You’re lumping them together out of ignorance or hatred, and it doesn’t really matter which.

First-gen Nissan Quest? Its Mercury twin? Old leg-breaking Toyota box van? Dodge Turbo Caravan? Pontiac Aztek? :)

While that’s true, there is I think a baser instinct that gets expressed in this situation: “I don’t get to get away with that, so fuck that guy for trying.”

Point is there are a lot of smaller SUVs and crossovers that are easy to get in and out of and are more nimble than modern minivans. There used to be minivans for people who didn’t need to carry 7 passengers, or didn’t need to carry 7 passengers and lots of cargo at the same time. It’s a bummer that Mazda killed the…

Or maybe you were just depressed.

Some days I regret not buying that Eagle Talon TSi AWD in ‘95.

It didn’t help that it was funny-looking.

You’re making the mistake of comparing cars of that era to cars of today. Absolute performance is not why people value cars from previous eras. And that’s not what’s meant by “best decade ever.”