For an NSX with 80k miles, $35,000 isn’t a terrible price. However, I’d be willing to spend a couple extra grand for left hand drive and a manual gearbox.

Now is a great time to buy a Miata. I just got my ND Club (Meteor Gray) for $27,090 (in Northern California where Ford Dealers are still asking for $10k markup on a Focus RS). There are huge discounts right now as winter approaches and 2017s are about to start showing up on lots.

Yup, and luckily most autos nowadays are great, and have convenient manual control. Not the slushboxes of yesteryear.

There is nothing to explain. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. Just buy the auto; there’s no practical reason to buy a manual any more.

I’m just pretty wary of hardtop convertibles as a whole - they are my wife’s preferred genre and we’ve never had one that hasn’t given trouble.

Anything we post is just our opinion, Jon. It’s not fact, or an encyclopedia entry. You don’t have to explicitly state that - goes with the territory.

It can’t be put into words. We know what we like, but can’t explain why. Like only dating certain types of women. Manuals are just more fun because reasons.

Your left foot has something to do.

You can feel the road through the actual shift lever.

No “creep” when sitting in stop and go traffic. (I prefer my manual over driving others’ autos for that reason)

It also makes the car’s profile look 100000x better. Typically the case with all modern convertibles, but no exception for the Miata.

Yeah, but I doubt destination is included with that number. This is an MSRP, not end retail.

So. Much. Want.

Finally. That was one of the worst weeks of 2016.

Welcome back, you were missed.

This is a no compromise sports car.......

What? Yes it is. It’s a hatchback. With front wheel drive. I may like the Type R but a “no compromise sports car” it ain’t.

Scion did, it was called Pure Pricing. Supposedly millenials like the idea that everything they saw online was the price they saw at the dealership.

Don’t want your sales team to offer incentives? Remove the incentive to your sales team. I don’t know if the “sales target” is a carrot or a stick, but you can’t implement it as either, and then remove the only tool available the sales person has to meet it.

Other than Saturn, has any other mass-market carmaker employed the “no one gets a discount” strategy?

Bingo.