“Remember 2008, when everyone was unable to pay their mortgage? Feels familiar to me.”

Brought it back from almost being a parts car

I’m a very early preorder holding for an R1S and I have been waiting patently for 4 years now...

There are between 10,000 and 12,000 car crashes in Portland Oregon every year. If there were only 392 car crashes in the last 10 months across the entire USA where a car was using level 2 driver assistance with the last 30 seconds, that sounds like a very safe system. As you note, these numbers mean nothing unless we…

As an ‘01 Z3 daily driver, this should be up there on the list. Texas weather allows for nearly year-round top-down driving, the only downside being 3rd degree leather burns during the summer.

The Z3 is brilliant... love that car. Good ones are getting collectable too.

Make it pretty, doesn’t have to be fast, but has to be engaging and happy. And most of all, make it romantic.

A Z3 or an S2000 would be my answer. Z4 is fine too, I think they’ve both aged well, depending on particular year.

I haven’t seen Saab convertibles mentioned 

The Z3/Z3 M roadster style has aged really well, I think.

The Fiat 124 Spyder. Best car for the Summer. Top down, don’t throw your tie in the back after work, guaranteed, it won’t be there by the time you get home (I know by experience).

Easy answer to this.

S2000. Despite having owned 4 Miatas in the past, the Miatas just don’t have the specialness and presence the S2000 has.

BMW Z3 with a straight 6, any of them. 00-02 models get the M54 inline 6 - probably the best motor BMW ever produced. Put the top down and smile....

I saw two RS6 Avants up here in Seattle. One of which is in my neighborhood and is usually always street-parked.

“Modern” seems like it would be subjective. Is the 4Runner modern? If you had a 20 year old Cherokee (which itself was already a 15 year old platform)... probably.

Yeah, except for the following three facts:

The fixed a lot of the tech/safety stuff with the 2020 MY, but yeah, it’s definitely an old truck underneath. 

The lack of tech is a feature, not a bug. We have a new Crosstrek. I love it. However, I keep looking at things like the front camera (so cool), the touchscreen with Android Auto (also very cool), the Starlink app that starts the car and adjusts the climate control remotely, the Eyesight system, the proximity key and…

Man, people are not good at determining what gas price increases actually cost them.