This. I went through 9 months on a waitlist to get a GR86 at sticker during peak demand, and hidden in the print of the final P&S agreement was a clause agreeing not to transfer ownership of the car to any other party within one year unless I paid a $5,000 penalty to the dealer. That did not fly with me.

Back in 2014 I was stuck with a Jeep Compass rental as a complimentary “upgrade” from the original subcompact I booked at National. To this day I have never driven a more miserable machine.

I think the bigger issue is having a buddy with a Cybertruck...

Largely seconded - I’ve got a GR86 in the garage and a Mazda3 in the driveway. Could stand to get something a little more capable in terms of cargo/hauling than the Mazda, perhaps a Maverick or Ridgeline, but I’m not about to abandon a paid off and well-maintained car for the two or three times a year it limits me.

Age 35 and would have bought one, but at 6'2" there was just no way I could finagle a comfortable driving position unless the roof was down.

I before E, except after shut the fuck up

I nearly walked on my GR86 order earlier this year because the dealer wanted me to sign a similar clause right at delivery - of which I would have been way less recalcitrant if I was financing through the dealer/manufacturer. When the funds come from elsewhere the dealer can choose either “no sale” or “no parlay…

All fine by me. Just let us be able to easily (re: no modifications and/or voiding of warranty) turn off the assists for driving on closed circuits or if the system malfunctions.

Farmers: Seen it, covered it.

I’m sad I missed the prime window to pick these up dirt cheap secondhand with low miles. Absolute bargain of an all-purpose utility vehicle that I’ve only come to respect more as the years go by.

Heh, what an era. Though apparently the MSRP of the GTX 970 was set at $299 before it was bumped 30 bucks at the last minute, and it would be another year or two before the 980Ti launched to replace the 980 as the top-tier offering, so I suppose my comment wasn’t reaching all that far back into GPU history!

Man, I remember when $300 was “one-step-down-from-the-top” high end.

No support for an H-pattern shifter? :(

Two miles on Storrow Drive will teach a driver more about car control and situational awareness than two days at Skip Barber.

If the whole point of this is to introduce a flow control specific to AVs, and human drivers are to follow AVs under those circumstances only...why not improve the flow control of the lights overall? Improve the sensors and logic for determining when to hold and release cars regardless if machine or human is in…

Right? And on top of all that, this generation had a proper double wishbone front and rear suspension that was not too dissimilar to the excellent Prelude of the same vintage. Had a ‘97 Coupe EX as my first car, and decades on I still miss it. One of the best-handling cars I’ve ever driven to this day...the speeds I…

Speeding. Not sure if it’s just me but it seems like a lot more people are flying down the aisles at speeds destined to hospitalize anyone who steps out a little too far. Is there any good reason to do more than 10 or 15 mph in a parking lot?

Why are my pants suddenly tight?

The key I noticed with the 2.5L (2015 hatch, 6MT) is to keep it just below the torque band if you don’t need to use it, almost like you’re keeping it out of the boost of a nonexistent turbo.

I think the bigger news here is that price jump - 2022 models started in the low $23K range and now they start in the mid-$28s.