I could find this agreeable.

...and a Speed Triple? You sir aren’t living the hypothesis, you are living the dream!

(Current XJ owner, former Speed Triple owner, hopeful some day Miata owner)

The accurate statement is:

Miata Is Always The Answer, as long as you already own an XJ.

Bitter hyperbole is the worst sort of journalism.

As a former rotary owner (FD) and one to experience in engine failure, I don’t agree with any of this. Five years of ownership with the ‘most unreliable Mazda ever offered in the US’ yielded a great term of ownership, free of flooding or being stranded from home or my…

Not sure why this is exciting. A Fiat 500, non-turbo, can deliver 100bhp and 9.5sec 0-60 with the offering of a manual gearbox for less money.The fact that an Abarth is available, for less money and superior performance, with a manual gearbox still available; I’m not sure why we aren’t reading more about it instead of…

I’m having trouble deciding between these two colors myself.

Ah, the Japanese Giullietta, wise choice.

I know Mazda seeks inspiration from Porsche; I just wish they’d be inspired by their color palette. The Cayman/Boxster are gorgous and these colors only add to their beauty.

Seriously, we’re a soft-shell society these days.

My wife is rather strong (Kiwi girl, built like a brick shit-house) but most women I’ve dated in the past and know presently are not strong in respect to, for lack of better association, raw torque output. In generality, women are strong in other respects as male and…

“It was cold! Normally there are two more cylinders there, I swear!”

Jalopnik is like a box of chocolates; you never know which Torchinsky you’re going to get.

It’d be really easy to integrate the track line into the design of a car, creating a dramatic beltline from head lamp to tail lamp (Think i8 type bodywork).

Vans are bad for a number of reasons, but the sliding doors are their one saving grace.

Why hasn’t this happened yet? (Apologies in advance for my lackluster Photochop)

The engineering for it is not new or complex, with proven reliability in many decades of consumer vans. Van doors for front and rear would require the least amount of vertical and horizontal space to enter or exit while giving the largest…

My 80's wheel dream team:

Isn’t the dot the new hotness that you’d really want?

Isn’t the dot the new hotness that you’d really want?

There are much better ways to spend 10k but in respect to what 10k will buy in VW metal and components, this is a good deal.

If your first love is a Rabbit truc, this would be the one to hop in bed with.

Model year can impact insurance cost as much as the class of vehicle. For reference, my 2009 BMW 335i cost the same monthly to insure as our 2015 Fiat 500 Sport. The 2016 Mazda MX-5 I was shopping for was within $20 every six months of both cars. A used car will have a lower insurance premium, though that sliding…

I’m at a crossroads presently, having just shed myself of a significant car payment. It fit within the ‘10% annual cost, of your annual income, after taxes’ metric but the monthly payment, just seeing the raw number, was still a hard pill to swallow, especially once insurance was added on top.

Presently I’m driving a…

I don’t see anger in the new Miata. More focused but intently enjoying itself.