Value judgments such as “greatest” are essentially personal, & cannot be “proven best” -- but as long as you have a car you love you should be happy.

I’ve been longing for a film of Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World since forever, but I don’t suppose I’ll ever see it made.

Are those the ones now going for $150K or some silly number?! Wow!

Don’t mean to be “that guy” but you’ve got a typo in your headline.

I’m with you. Sports cars should at least have colorful options beyond just the generic. [Not trying to diss Soul Red here, but as the only vibrant paint option it’s real long in the tooth to my sensibility.] Racing orange was cool for the AE, but I’d like to see a BRG [dark, I know, but still great], maybe a warm…

There’s zero chance I would pay $9500 damned dollars for that, although I do like it very much.

The 7th star is behind the wheel.

A list without the 1997 Lotus Elige twins is no list at all!

I was thinking the exact same thing.

I’d buy an MR2 Spyder is what I’d buy, preferably a 2004-05 with the LSD.

I can maybe see it as a real solid cross-country grand tourer at this point.

Three vowels & two commonly used consonants in various permutations hasn’t failed me yet, but I’m sure it will eventually. I don’t play the “easy” version, though, so my letters stick once they pop.

Why would you assume that a person wouldn’t research the potential effects of removing or replacing a part before doing so? Especially someone in the automotive journalism industry?

You missed a part - loud pipes *on tiny cars* save lives, since everyone started driving monster-sized things & tiny car-makers stopped producing brightly colored vehicles.

Yes. On-off for no lights, high beams for “hey jerk your brights are on.”

I was under the impression BMW’s 228i is a Grand Coupe model in FWD & not RWD, which is the 240 (& has no M/T for 2022). Am I wrong?

A maximum of 3.8% of males worldwide reach 6'3", so it’s not likely a Mazda concern. Which is a shame. (No, I’m not tall like that, but cool cars should fit everyone on general principles.)

Solstice still turned out way nice but as you say, it wasn’t its concept.

So... daily driving a mustang is mistreating it?

Given the amount of beef the world eats, I always wonder whether the slaughterhouses & the leather-merchants get together, & if not, why.