Or perhaps after a lifetime driving economy cars suddenly getting a track rocket when you retire is just too abrupt of a transition. If someone offered me a Noble M600, a Koenigsegg or one of the really fast TVRs my first question would be “cool, now what can I practice on till I have the skills needed to pilot these…

I think you meant sidewalks.

The ideal would be something that uses features of both, most likely. Have a proximity sensor that enables the regular key to be used, but doesn’t do anything just by itself. You could even just make it push-button if you really wanted convenience (such that the signal would be time-based encrypted such that it…

I dunno but I bet a standard shipping container would work as a decent Faraday cage.

I’d buy that for a dollar.

I love driving my car, but very much miss living in Seoul where I could convenient get anywhere while leaving it in the garage and really wish I could do so in LA.

I wish (white) Conservative america would just go somewhere away from the rest of us.   

Gas taxes that haven’t gone up for several decades...

I assume everything blamed on millennials?

Go down to The Villages, FL where my dad lives and you’ll read some real stupid opinion pieces in their local print media, levels of rampant inane bitchery, racism, and disconnect from the outside world as to dazzle your senses.

Wow, I just checked the inflation calculator, and even $200,000 a year in 2019, is equivalent to 21,202 in 1956. Wowwwwwwww.

I’d say an easier way to an enjoyable life is to drive something that isn’t a total PITA to own.  

Yep, if it had that Mazdaspeed motor I would have bought one. 

I’ve been scorned for saying this but I wish that Mazda had also made this car with the Mazdaspeed turbo four. They should have figured out a way to leverage the goodness of the chassis with a conventional engine as well as the Wankel. Could have called it the MX-8.

Didn’t these have a lot of aluminum subframe/body cracking in the engine bay?

You’re right, the C5 hasn’t aged a day.

2006 Dodge Neon with larger headlights.

I’m highly biased, but I’ll take my 15 year old Viper for that price with the 1 in front removed. Good looks, V10 power (and torque), and only comes in a stick, all in a price an average person could actually buy one day and not just dream about. Admittedly you are going to give up something in comfort, but if it’s…

relative simplicity of the 1.8T and 1.4T

Unfortunately, the awd wasn’t available on the diesel on this side of the pond.