The next Miata won’t be electric.

Sounds pretty damn practical to me.

I really should have made a bigger fuss than I did... oh well. It’s long gone now.

That’s... a thing I hadn’t thought of. Yikes.

sometimes people care about random internet strangers

Heck… I’d go first edition of the new one over the restomod.  

I think they restored this one wrong. It didn’t need the big engine…the suspension setup doesn’t look right…the buyers for it would value it as an overlanding rig, and the way it sits now seems more like an expensive mall crawler. Which…as others have noted, those folks will just get a G wagon.

Have you seen how much the G-wagon goes for these days?

Sorry seller, you don’t get to look at the market cost of a nice 60 series and add the cost of your restomod to arrive at a selling price.

Kinda funny how the headline here is that the EV9 “isn’t cheap.”

Moments later?

Lots of good choices in here already, so I’ll go with the car that has likely been driven by more people than any other, and likely got more people interested in driving than any other car.

It was the first car to outsell the Model T IIRC too.

I think this is probably the right/obvious answer, but I think it’s contribution is more about production and really leaning into a new industry in a way that was truly new.

I’ve wondered about this for a while. For one...even with ICE production the amount of automation in production was likely to increase and remove jobs. I’m not sure how significant the amount would be, but it’s pretty easy to see that even without EVs, the number of auto workers was going to go down over time.
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Well shit. That’s pretty much what they told me too. Their “only” way to diagnose was going to be something affixed to the outside of the windshield and monitor it for a week. Sold it instead.

I always thought they looked like they aged much faster than they should have.

That is fantastic!  

The price is more right on this than anyone in here has admitted to so far. LOL at the number of posts thinking a 944 is a $5k car. It’s not 20 years ago anymore. $9500 is far from the top of the market on an S2. Something nice will set you back $20k..$30k if you have money to burn. So something less than $10k is…

The number of donut spares I see on the roads around here is horrifying.  Often, it’s pretty easy to tell the donut has been there a long time - they should be pretty clean right?  Ugh.