I have a buddy that has a manual Miata, and he says its hilarious how he has to drive it into the service bays etc and the carwash because people can't drive manuals.

 

Oh it 1000% is, I leave the Jetta idling when it's super cold out fully unlocked and I have no fear anyone will steal it.

Plus if they do the insurance payout is near 3x what I am in it lol!

 

He bought it because he has a wife and 5 daughters and nobody but him could drive a manual, so he knew nobody else could drive it lol

 

Not an appliance….a real car




AJT was right

paging @AJT123

 

Even Miatas sometimes fall prey to the inevitable.............

 

They've offered an automatic since the very first NA back in the late 1980s. But the take rate for the auto is the lowest of pretty much any car that offers both. It's fluctuated a bit over the years, but as of 2024 had fallen back below 30%.

 

A lot of sources or whatever are salty about it and negative because they were wrong.

Many keep hammering that the Hurricane is so much faster but they don't realize that we don't care, and some of us keep our cars for a lonnnnnng time. Annnnnnd, some of us lovvvvvvvve V8s. Way more than the government wanted to think.

I mean ****, 29PSI and 540hp shoved into 3.0 liters in the Hurricane.. That is a ridiculously high stressed engine, and personally I don't care how "well" they engineered it to handle it... that's going to be a disaster eventually. Give me a big lazy V8 please! They need to drop the 6.4 into the 1500s to compete with the monster V8s GM is coming out with. GM sticking with V8s, it will keep them at #1 for sales if you combine Chevy and GMC. It used to be Ford.

 

someone pinch me... the "like button" is in car chat now??

 

I just noticed that!
Smashing the like button for you!

 

lmao i smashed it for you as well!

 

Such a small thing that makes a big difference, the like button! lol

Its interesting, manual Miatas are in much higher demand than autos. The car is just way better with the manual, its slow and anemic with the auto but fun with the manual. I helped my buddy negotoate his and finding a manual was much harder and they sold off lots much faster.

 

tbh i'm not exactly sure how i feel about it lol... i feel like we're gonna enter a period of like hyperinflation now

 

Lol no it'll be an informal and light hearted dick measuring contest...

 

I'm just throwing this out there, before I really stopped participating in the model specific forums I had the most likes of anybody on CL.

Not that I looked that up or anything LOL

 

In the model specific forums, I see the like button as necessary feedback.

When I was helping a member and they never like anything I had to say- I just leave.

Just like in real life.
Who would keep talking if nobody likes anything you have to say? Lol

My like button for members here in chat was this 🏆.
Because we didn't have one.