Behold the racerboi. Observe the frantic wanking of his ego and desires.

I see your point but a lot of 16 year olds (the ones interested in driving these days) would want their own project and not someone else’s.  

No 17-18 year old who saved up $4500 working at a restaurant or whatever should ever buy a heavily modified, high mileage vehicle. There is a not-insignificant chance that it will need some kind of very expensive repair within 1-2 years because you’d have no idea how intelligently the mods were done and how hard it…

And then fall on the used needles

I was born in 85, so by 2000 I was in HS and college. I don’t think I’ve ever touched a minidisc. I know of one or two people that had them, but they were suuuuuper rare. They were expensive and you couldn’t buy pre-recorded media on them, at least not around me. Just the weirdo tech dude had one.

Cassettes were still kind of the cassettes of the aughts. 

The E46 was also awesome for offering the cassette mit LCD navi display (not offered in North America)

“MiniDiscs were like the cassettes of the aughts.”

The NC1 Miatas had a MiniDisc expansion as an option - super rare.

My undergrad is Literature with a minor in Philosophy, my wife’s undergrad is a double major Spanish and Philosophy....with our kids we are like - “You are gonna be good at math or else...”

He is right that people with liberal arts degrees are smarter with their money, mostly because we only have three dollars.

We were still using handheld Minidisc players in 2005. They stood up to Afghanistan. 

This is a fair point, and, as a fellow liberal arts degree holder (Philosophy, no less), I feel his pain.

... and the spirited performances of a subcompact economy car

No longer cheap

“ sport bikes which are far more dangerous than the Sprite”

I own one, so I am totally biased, but these things are a lot of fun for the price.

Buy a bicycle and a graduate degree

That’s actually the maximum rodent capacity of this rat motel.

It’s nuts what you can get on the used market looking at sporty tourers. My target bike these days is “the cheapest fuel injected bike I can find” and for not much more that that, you can get a sport tourer with 50% more displacement, more features, some storage, and a ton more comfort.