I would argue that the NA miata is already a classic and so can’t be a future classic. I lost my garage space and I’m finishing my turbo build - tuning and such - on the street in front of my building. I get into a lot of conversations with my neighbors about the car. People really seem to respond to it.

Nothing’s going to feel rare if you have 4.75 of them lying around your property, but most people don’t have that kind of room to stretch out and don’t see these quite as much. I own a 1990 and there are definitely a few NAs running around Chicago, but clean, original early cars are getting more rare and the prices…

I mean, you can do this now to a large extent. I bought a DIYPNP Megasquirt kit for my Miata and put together a complete ECU, having soldered nothing in my life, and it works fine. Granted it’s running a car from 1990, but later models of Megasquirt have a ton of advanced functions. Can aftermarket ECUs get to the…

This is maybe the easiest NP on here, ever. I paid $1k for a very beat-up 1990 that I have since put a lot of money and effort into, and I would have been much better off starting with this car. The only caveat there is that if you’re going to do a lot of mods, an ODB1 car is best. But if you just want to drive, this…

Anybody who finds this weird might want to take a gander at what Dorna has done with MotoGP. A few years back MotoGP was on track to became F1 in many unpleasant ways - satellite teams having no ability to win a race, huge gaps from race winners to everyone else, a major dearth of close racing, not much passing, fans…

This.... this is wretched. Electric bikes and such sound neat when they fly by, why can’t we just make the motors easier to hear? The Mission R sounded cool and futuristic and fast in the right scenario.

Yeah, details on the suspension are far too light here. Definitely needs IRS and a more modern setup in the front. I have a feeling, though, that their target market won’t care. It’s the same middle aged guys who buy corvette Z06s and don’t track them. They daily an Escalade. You say “IRS” and they say “My taxes are…

This guy has 70k to spend and wants an understated performer? A brute in a suit? Come on y’all. I think we know what he needs.

Read your write-ups. AWESOME job!

Wow. I’m impressed you stuck with that. Looks great now, by the way.

Oh you definitely get a star.

Sorry, this is supposed to be about bad ideas, and that car is a GREAT IDEA.

Yeah. If your overall budget is 20k to include some maintenance surprises, registration/tax etc, this is a solid choice (pending inspection by BMW mechanic.) 9/10 would hoon. Just a nice driver. Black on black is always very handsome on E39s too.

Thank you. I’ve been saying this on Jalopnik for months and it’s still pretty heretical around here. The Prius is fine, everyone. It’s a car that moves people efficiently, nothing more. It’s not coming to take away Corvettes and Miatas and Toyobarus or steal your lover or shit in your cereal or whatever it is people…

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Thank you. Seriously, come on guys. Everything is going to be electric sooner rather than later. There’s a lot of “old man yelling at cloud” going on around here.

Honest question, but what do you want her to do about it? She works here and she writes about racing. Major manufacturers are ending their participation in one of the most important auto races of all time in order to focus on Formula E. It doesn’t really matter if Formula E is currently slower than F1, Jalopnik has to…

I would really, really appreciate it if Jalopnik and other outlets would make very clear when we are talking about a “ban on internal combustion cars” versus a “ban on the sale of new internal combustion cars.” These are not anything close to being the same and the ramifications are very different. It seems that…

I’m ok with NASCAR making itself more and more irrelevant over time with hot trash takes like this. Cancel NASCAR and dump all the resources into Indycar. Just combine the series and any NASCAR emloyees who can figure out how to do their job around cars that turn both directions can stay employed. Everyone else can…

Absolutely nice price: