RIGHT? Since when has driving ever been a right?

Except for how harsh the ride is. I’ve been in i3's with both 19's and 20's, the ride doesn’t qualify as “luxurious” in any way shape or form.

I’m turning in my i3 lease and I don’t think I would recommend it for heavy highway commuting somewhere with a 70mph speed limit. The ride is too harsh and the steering too twitchy at freeway speeds.

Small, cheap, and electric. Make your pick and lease it. I just turned in a BMW i3 and got a Kia Soul EV. It’s only got 100 miles of range, but it gets even better in heavy traffic. Plenty of creature comforts, silent operation, instant torque, small and nimble for helping with lane changes and stuff. Mine is $188/mo…

There’s two of these in my neighborhood. I’m pretty sure they are dropping my property value by at least $100k.

Yeah, the lease vs buy argument is very subjective, and all depends on individual situations. Leasing works well for my family and I, but I’m sure we could possibly even save a little more by buying and keeping it for a little longer. I won’t keep a DD for longer than 4-5 years anyways, so a three year lease with…

I disagree, I don’t have the same shitty outlook on the later years of life as you do.

You understand that people can own more than one vehicle, right? I’ll be happy to live to 70, 80, or even 100. So many great things to look forward to.

Yes, but that article qualifies the increase by saying that VMT also increased by the largest amount in 25 years. More people driving more miles when all else remains equal means more fatalities.

You are passing off as fact what you WANT to believe, but it goes against all statistics. Look it up, both accident rate and fatality rate (per capita for both) has steadily went DOWN since 1990.

What a dumb comment. You can have a brand new car and not use any of the infotainment and be just as focused on driving as you can in a 90's shit box.

This is why I don’t understand the “just get a cheap beater for your daily driver” crowd. If anything, your daily driver should be as new as possible just for the safety aspects. You are going to put more miles on your daily, so by default you are more likely to get in an accident. This is why I lease cheaper new cars…

The NC is really the only (used) Miata I would consider actually owning. I’ve driven all three (not the new ND yet) and yeah, the NC is a little bigger overall, but it’s also a better CAR overall without losing any of the character and involvement that come from the first two generations.

Regardless of HOW they are advertising, I’m just happy that they are ACTUALLY ADVERTISING IT! I’ve seen more 86 commercials in the last month or two than I have seen for the entire time it was the Scion FR-S. Not even exaggerating either.

If this car was a wagon and available with a manual, it would be every Jalop hipster’s wet dream. Unfortunately they would continue driving their beat up Miata until this B7 was 12 years old or so and available for under $10k. Which means again, no one would buy it new and it would be cancelled after selling a couple…

There’s nothing attractive about the rear end of that Camar....errrr Corvette. Absolutely beautiful car, absolutely ruined by a misshaped ass.

And you tried to make a “high revs aren’t practical” argument when somewhere like a race track, they can be perfectly practical. They can mean the difference between having to make an extra shift or not. You still don’t have any clear point in your argument. My point is and always has been that subjectively many…

Ummmm, well, the answer to your question would be, THE WHOLE ARTICLE. It’s about the engine that comes in the E92 M3, a sports car.

A practical person wouldn’t choose a sports car to begin with. There is nothing practical about our hobby, so you can throw that logic right out the window.

Who’s talking about 4-cyl engines? The M3 engine is a V8, and it sounds better (subjectively) than a lazy LS motor. My post was prefaced by saying that sound matters to some people, but others just want the power. I was saying I would take a lower power but better sounding V8 over a different V8.