As a former Focus owner, this is the life these cars revel in. My ZX5 took to being modded, hooned, and worse with a happiness and playfulness that I’ve only seen in small puppies.

As far as I’m aware, this particular car is owned by the founder of LuLaRoe clothing....

I had a lot of luck in the Ford Focus culture when it started back in the early 2000s. We had some F&F idiots but it felt very inclusive. Wild paint jobs and body kits, euro spec parts, auto-x, drag, name your passion and you’d at least get an acknowledgement that you belonged.

Wait. Was that a Chrysler Crossfire before the second Subaru??

Summertime I drive a 240SX Convertible - 155hp

I feel your pain on being rolled. The last warm day of the season that I could drive with the top down on my 240SX, I had some asshat in a, you guessed it, beat to shit multi-colored ram, blow past me in a passing zone, force incoming traffic onto the shoulder, cut me off, and then roll coal on me for 30 minutes while…

Very good point about cars being on the road without airbags or ABS today. I have a classic Nissan I drive when it’s warm. There are no airbags, no ABS, no traction/stability control, no roof, and no seatbelt inertial locks. Yet I share the road with soccer moms in excursions looking at their Facebook feeds.

I envy you. I have an 04 Mustang Mach 1. The shifter was once described on a car show as “all the tactile joy of rowing a wrench in a bucket of bricks.”

I look. Normally out of boredom but also to 1) see if they are checking out my cars (I never drive anything boring) or 2) try to guess if they are going to try and beat me from the light.

This time period was not fun for cars. I have a 93 240sx Convertible. 0-60 is 10.6 seconds. When it was new. It’s terrifying trying to merge in that thing.

A guy down the street from home has one of these in Black in immaculate condition. He also has a white CRX Del Sol and a black Beretta Z26 also in immaculate condition. Between the 3 cars he has 2 car covers and they alternate which 2 are covered. They all look showroom fresh.

Probably mentioned already but explosion proof glass seems like a bad idea. What if you end up in the water and need to punch out a window? All my cars have a glass breaker inside just incase that happens.

Probably mentioned already but explosion proof glass seems like a bad idea. What if you end up in the water and need to punch out a window? All my cars have a glass breaker inside just incase that happens.

I know that feeling. My 04 Mach 1 is at 295whp 318wtq so about 340hp/360tq crank (assume 15% drive train loss). This car still feels dangerously fast. I cannot even fathom what 460hp straight off the lot feel like, or the amount of damage a yahoo with a heavy foot can do.

I’ve always had this perverse dream to take one of these, turn it into a 2 door, add a wild rear wing, and convert it to RWD. The styling is absolutely beautiful front and back (sides not so much) and just seems such a letdown knowing it’s FWD.

Man, I just started a job with no vacation until next year (plus 2yo and a 3mo old kids). Hope this goes on next year that I can get the family involved. I know Rei would be welcome there. Especially with her story.

Anyway we could see a “Does it Baby”? I’ve got 2 kids in rear facing seats and I’m in the market soon for a fun commuter car. I cannot fit both seats comfortably in anything but our C-Max and even then it’s a bit too tight for my tastes. I’m 6'2" and have to drive my 240SX with the seat all the way back on the rails…

The Mach 1 has 1OF768 since there were only 768 Mach 1s ever made in that shade of yellow.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The targa GT-86 with the weird auto/manual was done to gauge the interest for this type of shifter in the new Supra. We aren’t getting a manual in the Supra but given the reaction I’d bet Toyota will offer it as the only transmission in the next gen Supra. Also, never getting…

The ideal car is thought up by American gear heads, styled by the Italians, engineered by the Japanese, given technological innovations from the French and assembled by the Germans.