Short answer: yes.

So the miata's not a sports car? Even though it's the most common sporting car in the world?

I'm confused at the demolition derby sport you seem to drive in. NO CAR will let you "sprint out of the way". You want lateral mobility, I suggest you stay on foot. And if you're in a position where you think you might suddenly need more power, I suggest you stay in a lower gear - that's what the 6 speed is for.

"200hp is just not enough power anymore"

I can't be the only one who would murder (or be murdered by) their spouse if they made a $50,000 purchase without even a heads up.

For road trips, leave The Goog at home and bring one of these. Far more reliable.

I hope your old ones are old enough. Anything with fuel injection is of course a no go, and anything with an computer-controlled carb will be fried as well.

If there's anything that Real Americans have learned about The Gays, it's that they are afraid of bumpy stuff.

+5 hoon points for the huge puddle at the end.

I'm biased because the first car I owned was an '87 cutlass (supreme brougham, if you must know). G-bodies are the best. They take a certain taste-acquiring, but there is a lot of power potential, and as long as you love steering and praying at the same time, they are a hoot to drive.

As usual, this fits the bill nicely. Less power than a 5.0 or an E30, but enough to put you backwards into a wall, if you so choose.

Steer by wire pretty well covers all the downsides of drive by wire.

None that I know of, but wikipedia tells me there's a concept Unimog somewhere out there that has it. Awesome.

The problem is that you want someone who's proven themselves as a writer, or specifically a car journalist, but you don't want a mindless cupholder enthusiast.

There were a couple of guys on the miata.net forums who started whipping up bikini tops a few months back. This looks similar, from what I remember and from what I can see in the pictures. Wonder if Mazda liked the look - if they did, I hope they hired those guys to make it for them.

HOV lane violation, and from the California Highway Patrol.

Yeah, I thought it was 50 stolen guns, but it sounds like they weren't part of the "stolen goods". Honestly, 50 guns doesn't seem out of line for a North Carolinan with a little bit of money.

I am infuriated whenever the Mercedes commercials come on - "I didn't know I was drifting out of my lane, but my Mercedes did."

The miata was introduced long after the rise of feminism, so its stick-shiftiness was not a distraction for women. Also, you CAN get it in an auto, and I know two women who have them.

I feel like this actually happened at least once. Some woman in London who put her husband's car on the internet for free, as long as you got it before he came home from work?