Tacky af... and kind of awesome

S2000 CR

I’ll take an aluminum chassis S2000 and Honda can use the same engine and gearbox they used in 1999.

Yes good advice! Deeply underrated cars.

Supercharger all day long

2005/6 Mini Cooper S for $6k. Yes it will have some issues in an 11 year old British BMW with a Chrysler engine but it checks your boxes.

“I seriously think someone with a butterfly collar, non matching polyester tie, muttonchop sideburns, extra large porno Stache, had made the design decision for the mid cycle refresh of the C3 Corvette.” Sounds like the description of a genius of style. If only MAGA meant bringing back 70s aesthetic.

(Whispers) E21 is better looking than E30. Good luck in your search.

The later ones without the chrome bumpers are better because cocaine > astronauts.

Ahem...

That’s a hardtop convertible. This is a targa 911

Weird, tacky, non-functional mod to a Corvette. First for everything.

Yep. Seems pretty much wind-tunnel determined mid-engine shape. And then fussy Civic body kit pasted on. And beak.

3 million unique visitors seems low. Half of those probably bounce after looking at a single page. Compare that to some low rent YouTube car channels. Doug DeMuro only recently started devoting most of his time to it gets 500k+ views per video.

Corvette got huge too

I like the Infiniti. If I’m Tony I’d check out the smaller G37 later named Q40.

The competition at $50k in 2018 is a lot stronger than it was at $32k in 2000. I’d argue the Mustangs and Camaros aren’t really sports cars however capable on track but I’m in the minority on that and buyers will be cross shopping them with the Honda.

$50k seems a little steep for a Honda but the S2000 went on sale at the end 1999 for $32k. Adjusted for inflation that’s approx $48k in 2018. Base Boxster is $56k today.

Can Jalopnik staff win COTD?

Frank Stephenson is one of the all time greats. This may always be his best: