> Lets consider the central dilemma here. The core of it is that there are
> just plain too many choices out there, and they are each in their own way
> really great. Like going to Baskin Robbins (except the chocolate mint).
>
> For perspective, we are vicariously trying to help a fellow enthusiast
find
> a replacement for an open sports car that is mechanically trouble free,
and
> will remain so for more than 150K mikes, doesn't leak, gets great mileage,
> doesn't pollute, looks great, and handles so well it can do double duty as
a
> race car on the weekends. Did you ever think such a car would even exist,
> let alone that it would last long enough to have such virtues be thought
> boring?
>
> Once again, we need to ask Dr. Peabody to set the way-back machine to
1973.
> Wheezer engines so choked on re-breathers with timing so retarded their
> carburetor equipped hearts stalled on the showroom floor, fun park
bumpers,
> bias ply tires and suspensions good enough to almost beat a modern
mini-van
> on a 200 foot skid pad, the ability to go almost 80 or even 100K miles
> before the trip to the crusher, incandescent headlights (square was a
major
> advance in styling don't you think?), not to mentions such niceties as AM
> radios that only played "Staying Alive", A/C that functioned great if you
> rolled the window down and lived in Minnesota (because there wasn't any
and
> the heat from the engine would fry your feet), noise, and lastly, the
> mileage of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
>
> And those were the "sports cars". The regular cars were at best, good for
> sinking offshore to construct artificial fish reefs. Mileage. Pollution.
> Safety. The three horseman of the apocalypse for the auto enthusiast. We
> were right of course, it was the end, and the choices today are the
> resultant compromises that are left us. So lets start over. What were the
> candidates again... oh yes: Boxter, 'Vette, Bimmer, Honda...
>
> Tony
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