You’re not the only one. Cars are physical things, they deserve physical gauges. I stare at a screen all day; I don’t want a screen in my car.

Alanis, great story! I love your mom. Though, some parts of this write up feel like they could be about a soft-top ND vs the ND RF. Since it sounds like you’re a true Miata lover, you *have* to try out the soft top!

yeah... no. This gives me a bit of rage.

Came here to say this, thanks.

It’s a service feature that not many other automakers and vehicles currently offer, but it’s clearly the direction they should all be headed.

More stars. MORE STARS.

What’s the distribution of Jalopnik staff that lives in a big city (mostly NYC I assume) vs. suburbs/much smaller cities?

I hear ya, brother! This is my story too. I wasn’t interested in cars at all until my friend showed up at my house after our first year in college with his surprise-brand-new mitsu evo 8 and ruined my life. I didn’t even have a driver’s license or intend to get one. After that one weekend, I was hooked. I drove racing…

Woah. WOAH. What’s with the hate on The Little Mermaid? That movie is one of the best Disney movies ever made, and it set the template for how movies of its kind should work.

Differentials!

We bought a giant (black) dump truck for 4 grand and converted it into a water truck. Hasn’t cost us a dime in maintenance. If you buy it, you’ll find yourself a purpose for it ;)

Not really, just never felt I had a reason to believe that the brand had anything to offer.

Just learned about these cars for the first time last month- in a weird encounter.

I tried this a couple times late at night. What did I discover? It works... but it doesn’t work because you need other cars to be able to see you too.

In my area, any private property with more than ten parking spaces is enforceable the same as public roads.

Get a Sport and swap in the LSD

I’m commenting because it seems no one else has pointed out that this is Pentatonix’s Daft Punk medley:

It’s damn sure closer to a  F1  P1 car for the street than Ferrari ever got.

I’d like to compare this car to my 2007 Audi RS4. For a couple years, when the SS was first announced with a manual transmission, I was thinking, “wow that looks really cool, but I already have a 4-door sedan with a V8 and manual, it would be redundant”. Well, it turns out (surprise) that’s not the case.

Check your info- the 2015s also had the MagRide suspension.