Mine is also silver (hint of bias to nominating my own car, but whatever) and it’s been fantastic. I bought it both as someone who cares about fuel economy, and a petrolhead. Appeals to both sides of my automotive interests.

Not sure it can be considered “cool” necessarily, but the first-gen Honda Insight kinda works. Expensive when new, they hardly flew out of showrooms - little over 17,000 sold worldwide. Today, they’re relatively inexpensive and still get economy figures far beyond any modern vehicle without a plug. They’re…

The fact that I wanted a small sporty hatch, which is a niche market here in the US (if you don’t want a Ford). And I finally made up my mind after I fell in love with the A3 TDI. Hadn’t bought one yet, and then the Diesel Gate fiasco happened.

Ended up with a Lancer GT Sportback, which only gets about 22 mpg, and is…