Serious question: Is this car really worth $35k? I understand convertible and all of that, but this is Golf R territory (among many other good cars) and if the entire purpose is to have fun in the car.... is the Miata RF really the best choice?

I love the way this car looks. Shame it’s wrong wheel drive ;)

It’s like the fat girl you lose your virginity to. You may not brag about her, but they’ll always have a special place with you.

First, the celica simply isn’t “sporty” by anyone’s definitions.

I also wanted to come back and say that this article is awesome. More stuff like this please Jalopnik!

At the front, in the right lane was a Mustang......but he bowed out before the first curve....

Debbie Harry rocks.

There’s always gotta be a poltergeist truther.

yeah I know... I was searching for a toy kayak model, found a baby toy that was a kayak. Bought it, and now Amazon think I got one. A baby.

You shut your mouth.

THIS was the comment that got me out of the greys!? Man, I feel like some of my quality work has slipped through the cracks.

I thought Mexico was paying for the wall?

Meh, I’ve seen better

I thought something was off about the body; looks like they did a pretty incredible job rolling the fenders!

They have internet. It’s just hard to launch a fullscale cyber attack on someone using dial up.

Guilty of the huge ass system, and can thank it for my tinnitus. Never did the neon though.

I don’t have a specific story, but my folks (who lived in England at the time), got married in ‘78 and had their first kid (me) in ‘81. In between, they had a three-liter Ford Capri. They get all misty-eyed whenever it comes up, and I think for them it’s a symbol of those halcyon days of young love before the kids…

Sounds like your pop was one of the original “shop hoonigans” we hear so much about here on Jalopnik.

Lol, i jest. Sad to hear about that ‘73.

Growing up I was always told about how my dad and 2 of my uncles owned a 71, a 72, and a 73 Corvette. My dads was the 71 and was a convertible, automatic, 350 in white. My uncle Craig’s was the blue 72 with a 350 auto, and my Uncle Bruce owned a yellow 73. The 73 however, was a 4 speed car with a 454 big block. From…