Fair haha. But driving shitty vs being shitty and having no warranty are two different things. Not that I would drop $50k+ on anything other than a car meant to go fast. But we live in a world where people drop $40k on Harleys and $90k on pickups so maybe this is just where we are now

Interesting take on the MSM. Was it the super short gearing that made it feel like it was too fast? I didn’t find it to be a very fast car, but a car that felt fast. 3 gear shifts by 6o mph, bang, bang, bang like a sport bike. It was an entertaining little road car

Sorry you like SUV’s and you don’t have the self awareness to realize how unnecessary they are for 99% of their buyers. Enjoy sitting up high

They’ve slowly been choked out by SUV. Few exist, but they’re still around. VW Golf wagen is phenomenal, Merc E class has one (gorgeous), Panamera (gross), BMW has/had a 3 and maybe a 5 series wagon, Jag did as well, Audi and of course the stunning Volvo ones.

They are worse in every way vs regular cars, except 1) driving through high water and 2) making you feel a false sense of security because your butt is higher off the ground.

I live where snow exists and I cannot wait to head out into it with a rwd car and snow tires. It’s the most fun I can have on the street. Granted I live in a metropolitan area so roads get salted and plowed pretty quickly. If I lived far enough out that deeper snow was a concern on local roads I’d probably care more ab…

I guess I fundamentally disagree. I think nothing is better than a high revving n/a engine that builds power all the way to redline. For me, nothing sounds better, nothing is more responsive, nothing is more exciting and visceral. Turbos muddy everything up. Response, sound (unless you like vacuum sounds and tweety…

They have come a long way, but they still insist on asinine 4wd. The only worthwhile modern Lambo are 2wd. Otherwise, just get the Audi version and attract less cops. 

I am from Texas. It’s literally the worst place Ive ever lived, if you’re into driving and not just making speed in a straight line. Every road is dead straight, you need 2000 hp just to not be bored. A 2000 hp Lambro has zero appeal to me. It would probably die 10 min into a hot August session at VIR. Or I would die…

I think the appeal of the Si was the fact it was affordable and insurable. I was a 90s kid whose first car was a 98 Civic EX... because that’s what was attainable. I wanted just about anything else. And then stockholm syndrome set in and I found myself wanting the Si

Drive a Porsche and then drive a modern Lambo. There is a reason one looks boring but sells and the other has to look exciting in order to sell.

Trying to get my foot to hit both pedals in a fixed steering-column height NA/NB miata is the problem for me. Long legs + being duck footed means my legs are very bent in that car and so I need to pivot my knee inwards to get my foot angled to heel-toe. This bangs my knee up against the wheel which is super frustrating…

Man, I had the same opinion and in 2012 I had the same rental Mustang experience. Except I was massively underwhelmed. It didn’t at all feel sporty, or connected, or well sorted and the engine felt like an SUV engine jammed in a sports car. No benefits to letting it rev-out to red line other than some coarse noise. So…

They don’t do anything for me either. Turbos and awd are my kryptonite individually, together it’s a hard pass. I get the appeal if you live in a place that you will be driving over dirt/snow covered backroads and can hang it out like a rally car. Or driving rallycross for fun. Especially the older narrow body cars. Ot…

SUV’s

Yeah. I kinda agree. A miata for competition driving of any sort is exciting because competition... But man, the last thing I want to do is a casual track day weekend in a Miata. Bored after a session. Had an NB Mazdaspeed Miata that held my attention for a few years. ND might be quick enough to be worthwhile on…

A Wrangler at least gives you unique driving experience vs everythign else on the road, be it car or SUV built on a car platform. Everything drives so relatively “well” from a technical perspective that it’s fun to have something kind of crappy and compromised. It feels special. Crazy right? But that’s a think. If I’m…

Yep. It’s like a printing press, to use a super simple example. Most of your costs are in the setup time, not the raw materials. Printing page 10,001 costs virtually nothing compared to printing page 9,555. But if you only want to print 500 of something on that same press, you’re going to be paying a huge percentage…

This. This is the one. It was just on the cusp of production too... It wasn’t just the beauty, it was the wild ass drivetrain. Unlike Ferrari and McLaren’s halo cars from that time, Jag actually took advantage of the addition of electric power to put in an engine that was so high strung and racy that it would…

Yikes. I’m sure cutting up and welding on one of the best unibodies out there worked out well. Lol.